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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor) and 2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
The Program for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr Hagar Kahana-Smilansky
Coordinator Office Hours:
Wednesday, 18.00
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Hagar Kahana-Smilansky
Course/Module description:
The course is an introduction to a social-cultural history of medicine, with links to turning points in the history of science. The course is divided into four subjects, each one representing a certain period.
Course/Module aims:
Introducing medical history in social-cultural contexts and the history of science.
Following changes in fundamental cultural concepts with the development of medicine;
Contesting deep-rooted myths within the history of medicine.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Recognize medicine as a cultural development which affects present day practices. Identify how historical concepts of disease and healing lead to and shaped their present counterparts. Enhance critical reading of medical and scientific history and identify prejudiced or uncritical attitudes. Estimate and judge the reliability of historical reports. Collate information from various fields to profoundly appreciate a historical period.
Attendance requirements(%):
80
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lectures with PowerPoint slide shows
Final assignment for each chapter.
Course/Module Content:
A: Rational Medicine in Greece:
1. Hippocrates and the debates in Greek medicine.
2. Systematic anatomical research in Alexandria 300-260 B.C.E.
3. Claudius Galenus (Galen) and his impact on the history of medicine.
B: Emergence of Public Medicine in the Middle Ages:
4. Transmission of medical knowledge from Greece to Islam.
5. Hospitals in the Islamic empire and Europe.
6. The 12th century: Medical regulation, examination and licensing.
C: New Anatomy in the Age of Experiments
7. From 'Sacred Anatomy' to the public anatomy theatres in the 15th century.
8. The discovery of the small and the general blood circulation: anatomy and transfusion.
9. The Microscope and the Bacteria.
D: The Concept of Contagion
10. Models of contagion from the middle ages to the 19th century: Leprosy, The Plague, Syphilis.
11. The small-pox vaccination: from the East to North America and England (1722-1800).
12. Two myths of 19th century hospital hygiene: Ignaz Semmelwise and Florence Nightingale.
13. The Bacteriological concept of disease.
Required Reading:
1. Hippocrates and "The Hippocratic Oath."
2.Vivian Nutton, “Alexandria, Anatomy, and Experimentation,” Ancient Medicine, London and New York: Rutledge, 2004, pp. 128-139.
3. . Vivian Nutton, "Logic, Learning and Experimental Medicine," Science, n.s. vol. 295, no. 5556 (2000): 800-801.
4. Z. Amar and E. Lev, Medicine and Physicians in Jerusalem, Bar Ilan University, 2000, pp. 22-61.
5. Medieval Islamic Medicine-
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/islamic_medical/islamic_02.html
6. The Book of the Islamic Market Inspector: Nihayat al-rutba fi talab al-hisba by `Abd al-Rahman b. Nasr al-Shayzari, ed. and trans. R.P. Buckley, Oxford University Press, University of Manchester, 1999, chapter 37.
7. Vivian Nutton, “Medicine in the Medieval Western Europe, 1000-1500,” The Western Medical Tradition 800 B.C.-1800 A.D., (ed. Laurence Conrad et al.), Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 139-159.
8. Giovanna Ferrari, “Public Anatomy Lessons and the Carnival: The Anatomy Theatre of Bologna,” Past and Present vol. 117/1 (1987): 50-106.
9. Philip Learoyd, "A Short History of Blood Transfusion," Leeds Blood Centre, National Blood Service (NHS, England), 2006.
10. David Herlihy, The Black Death and the transformation of the West, ed. and Introduction by Samuel Cohn, Harvard, 1997, chapter 2
11. Vivian Nutton “The Seeds of Disease,” Medical History vol. 27 (1983): 1-34.
12. a. Stefan Riedel, “Edward Jenner and the history of smallpox and vaccination,” Proceedings of Baylor University Medical Center, 2005 January; 18(1): 21–25.
b. Vaccinations in North America 1722:
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/smallpox.html
http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/7910093?n
13. The nineteenth century, https://www.planetseed.com/node/17133
14. Biography of Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis.
Additional Reading Material:
1. The Salerno school of medicine: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/medieval/salerno.html
2. Laurence I. Conrad et al. (eds.), The Western Medical Tradition 800 B.C.-1800 A.D., Cambridge University Press, 1995
3. Luke Demaitre, Medieval Medicine: The Art of Healing, from Head to Toe. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2013. Introduction.
4. Andreas Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica 1543: http://www.vesaliusfabrica.com/en/vesalius.html
5. Katherine Park, "Stones, Bones and Hernias: Surgical Specialists in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Italy," in Roger French et al. (eds.), Medicine from the Black Death to the French Disease (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998), pp. 110-130.
6. Edward D. Coppola, “The discovery of the pulmonary circulation: A new approach,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 37 (1957): 44-77.
7. Robert E. Lerner, "The Black Death and Western European Eschatological Mentalities," The American Historical Review 86/ 3 (1981): 533-552.
8. Rosemary Horrox, ed., The Black Death, Manchester, University Press, 1994 (source book).
9. Faye Marie Getz, “Black Death and the Silver Lining;…” Journal of the History of Biology, vol. 24/2 (1991): 255-289.
10. "Louis Pasteur Biography"
Notable Biographies : Ni-Pe
11. Leprosy today:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/health/fast-new-test-could-help-nip-leprosy-in-the-bud.html?ref&eq;science&_r&eq;0
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 20 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 80 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
End of term home exam in case of failure to submit assignments 80%
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