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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Medicine
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Ein Karem
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Tamar Salmon-Mack
Coordinator Office Hours:
after the lessons
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Tamar Shalmon
Course/Module description:
Some health and ethical issues studied from written Hebrew or translated medieval and early-modern sources, their cultural and social context. How health, illnesses and diseases were seen and understood, how they coped with plague, treated small children, were they tolerant towards marginals and mental illnesses, how transition from traditional to modern medicine was made.
Course/Module aims:
Dealing with historical situations and dilemmas through a modern view.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Knowing some interesting kinds of historical sources and using them as a basis for contemporary and up-to-date discussion.
Attendance requirements(%):
100%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
actual discussion upon historical sources: historian, physician and students.
Course/Module Content:
medieval anatomy conceptions and Holistic Medicine in ancient and medieval world.
2) plague as a permanent threat. major historical epidemics and their reflection in historical documents.
3) public health in a pre-modern society.
4) mental diseases - medical and social diagnosis.
5) literature promotes modern medicine - Hebrew popular medical writing from 17th century Tuvia Cohen to .
Required Reading:
see Hebrew box
Additional Reading Material:
see Hebrew box
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 20 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 80 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
a whole semester
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