| Course title | Health and Disease in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period |
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| 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 |
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| Course content |
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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
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
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| Learning outcomes |
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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 |
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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.
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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unspecified
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. |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Cultural and Historical Regional Studies (A) | Category: History courses | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Documentation of Historical Memorials (A14) | Category: History courses | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Cultural History (A14) | Category: History courses | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Education | Study plan (Version): Teaching of History for Secondary Schools (A14) | Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): History with Education Emphasis (Two Subject Combination) (A14) | Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): History (Single Subject) (A14) | Category: History courses | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): History (Two-Subject Combination) (A14) | Category: History courses | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Cultural History (A14) | Category: History courses | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): History (Single Subject) (A14) | Category: History courses | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Teaching History for Middle School (Single Subject) (A14) | Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care | - | Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: - |