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Human sciences and languages - C.I(II anno)
SILVIA MODENA

Seat Medicina e Chirurgia
A.A. 2017-2018
Credits 7
Hours 70
Period 1^ semestre
Language ENG
U-gov code MU01-09-11 LS113

Prerequisites

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A school-leaver’s knowledge of English is assumed. Given the objective of the course, none of the international English certificates will be considered.

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Development of the course

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English is the new lingua franca of science. Scientific English is not only a specialized language, but an actual genre, a system of rules and conventions governed by a specific logic and a way of expressing thoughts and concepts. Authors ignore these rules at their peril and readers who are not proficient in them will not truly understand text contents. Only in a very limited sense can scientific English be considered as a language consisting of words and of their reciprocal connections.

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History of medicine from the ancient world to the twenty century: physicians, theories, therapies, hospitals, universities, bioethics.

 

Learning outcomes

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The main goal of the course is to make second year students familiar with the conceptual system and language of science, specifically medical-biological English, and to enable them to understand and interpret widely different texts. The goal involves learning and understanding basic concepts related to the scientific method, including terms such as trial, significant finding, review, control group, randomization, in vitro, morbidity.

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To know the past in order to understand the present.
 

Program

mod. SCIENTIFIC ENGLISH

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The lessons will examine scientific papers on a variety of general and increasingly specialist topics in terms of grammar, syntax and content. The relevant terminology will be addressed and explained. A paper‘s organization, the reporting of scientific findings and their discussion will also be examined.

 

mod. HISTORY OF MEDICINE

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Ancient medicine: Homer’s myths, Asclepius’ cult, the medical literature from Hippocrates to Galen, philosophers’ contribution to anthropology, biology, anatomy, and epistemology. Decline and revival of medicine in the Middle Ages: the foundation of universities and hospitals in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The medical humanists and their new translations of Galen from Greek, which are important for the medicinal renewal in the sixteenth century: Andreas Vesalius and his human anatomy in contrast to the animal anatomy of Galen. The first biological revolution in the seventeenth century: William Harvey and the discovery of blood circulation. The evolution of medicine and the achievements of the second biological revolution in the nineteenth century: from microscopic anatomy to Claude Bernard’s physiology and Rudolf Virchow’s cellular pathology; from miasmic theory to Louis Pasteur’s germs and Robert Koch’s postulates; the history of hospitals and mental asylums. Two lectures are dedicated to “evolution and human races”: Charles Darwin e Cesare Lombroso.

Development of the examination

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Written test. Translation of sentences and words from English into Italian and multiple choice test.

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Written test
 

Recommended reading

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photocopies to be ordered from the COPISTERIA office

 

 

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