History of Medicine

Code:

MT144

Acronym:

H_MED

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2004/2005 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Behavioural Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MED	149	Plano oficial a partir de 2003	1	1		-

Objectives

To study the general History of Medicine giving relevance to the Portuguese Medicine.
To show an inter-dependence of Medicine Specialities "versus" its impact in society, poiting out that “What is actually in force isn’t the definitively valid”; to understand that “the doctor that only knows Medicine, doesn’t know Medicine at all”

Program

1. Presentation of the chair. Teaching staff

2. Introduction to the Thought, Science and Technology in Medicine. History theory and methodology
3. Two important persons of the Faculty of Medicine of Oporto – Prof. Abel Salazar and Prof. Hernâni Monteiro
4. Pre-technical Medicine, Extinguished and Peribeing Archaic Cultures
5. Arabic and Medieval Medicine
6. Medicine of Renaissance and of the Discoveries
7. Medicine in the XVIII, XIX and XX Centuries
8. Oporto and Portuguese History of Medicine in the XIX and XX Centuries
9. History of Hospitals and Thermal Assistance
10. History of Imagiology – from the diagnosis to the therapeutics
11. History of Occupational Medicine and Hipperbaric Medicine
14. History of Arterial Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus and Dislipidemias
15. History of Anaesthesia and Pain Therapeutics
16. History of Transplantation
17. Historic evolution of Cardiology
18. Historic and conceptual evolution of Disaster Medicine
19. History of Histology and Microscopy

Main Bibliography

- Armando-Moreno (1996-1998). O Mundo Fascinante da Medicina. 12 Vol. Ed. Autor, Lisboa
- Companian Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine (1997). Bynum WF, Peter R. Routledge. London 2 Vol.
- Gonçalves-Ferreira (1990). História da Saúde e dos Serviços de Saúde em Portugal. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Lisboa.
- Guerra F (1982-1989). História de la Medicina. 1º ed. 3 Vol. Ed. Nova, Madrid.
- Halioua B (2001) Hitoire de la Medicine. Masson. Paris.
- Lazorthes G (2000) Sciences Humaines et Sociales – L’homme, la société et la medicine. 6ª ed. Masson. Paris.
- Piñero J (2002) La Medicina en la Historia. La Esfera de los Libros. Madrid.
- Pita R. (1996) Farmácia, Medicina e Saúde Pública em Portugal (1772-1836), Minerva Ed. Coimbra.

Complementary Bibliography

Support Texts, given to the students according the theorical classes

Teaching methods and learning activities

- Theorical classes: based in the programme the classes should be interactive in order to meet the students interests and expectation
- Seminaries (optional): occur in the meetings of the Portuguese Society of History of Medicine and Medical Philosophy. The students will be invited to present, in, no more than 10 minutes, a subject of their preference

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Observations

The Programme may suffer punctual modifications in case of pressing need.