Course: Health and Disease in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

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Course title Health and Disease in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Course code KHI/V050
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 6
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Hrbek Filip, PhDr.
Course content
1. Introduction and assignments 2. Medical vs. historical approach in the history of medicine, sources for history of medicine 3. Medicine in the antiquity 4. Origins of the medical ethics 5. Preservation of medical knowledge - monastery medicine 6. Beginnings of institutionalization of medicine - universities 7. Visible danger - French disease and leprosy 8. Invisible danger - Black Death 9. New theories of Early Modern Medicine 10. Theatrum anatomicum and anatomical revolution 11. - 13. Presentation and discussion of the semestral projects

Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
The aim of the subject is to introduce students to the problematics of medieval and early modern medicine. Emphasis is laid to the process of development of the medicine, its theories, but also to the common perception of the human body, health, disease/illness and medical profession. Closely connected to these topics will be also everyday life and everyday praxes not only of majority society but also of those, who were to stay on the outskirts of medieval and early modern society - the ill ones.
The graduates understand elementary problems of medicine in the medieval and early modern Europe. They can describe the main development milestones of medicine, perception of medicine in contemporary historical periods, most significant doctors and scholars and also the most spread theories. They can categorize the basic sources for the study of history of medicine, contemporary perception of human body and his physiology. According to above mentioned they can interpret medieval and early modern imagination of health (wellbeing) and illness (disease). They can evaluate the historical development of medical science on the European level. And they are also familiar with the historical development of prophylaxes.
Prerequisites
Mandatory curses/subjects for registration on this curse are none. Recommended is knowledge of universal and Czech history of the middle ages and early modern period, pertinently history of sciences. Absolutely necessary is mastering of English language, in which the curse is conducted.

Assessment methods and criteria
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Students are required to actively participate in education in the form of fulfilling continuously assigned tasks and to successfully submit the solution of six tasks, based on the discussed subjects, in a written form.
Recommended literature
  • David Tomíček. Víra, rozum a zkušenost v lékařství pozdně středověkých Čech. Ústí nad Labem, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7414-177-5.
  • Martin Nodl, František Šmahel (edd.). Člověk českého středověku. Praha, 2002. ISBN 80-7203-448-0.
  • Milada Říhová a kol. Lékaři na dvoře Karla IV. a Jana Lucemburského. Praha-Litomyšl, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7432-047-7.
  • Milada Říhová. Kapitoly z dějin lékařství. Praha, 2005. ISBN 80-246-1021-3.
  • Petr Svobodný-Ludmila Hlaváčková. Dějiny lékařství v českých zemích. Praha, 2004. ISBN 80-7254-424-1.
  • Roy Porter. Dějiny medicíny: od starověku po současnost. Praha, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7260-287-2.


Study plans that include the course
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