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UHV / EMEDI
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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UHV
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EMEDI
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Title
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Social History of Medicine
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Form of course completion
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Course-credit
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Form of course completion
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Course-credit
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
5
Cred.
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Time requirements
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Lecture
1
[HRS/WEEK]
Seminar
1
[HRS/WEEK]
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Included in study average
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NO
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Language of instruction
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English
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Occ/max
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Summer semester
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0 / 0
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0 / 0
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0 / 15
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Included in study average
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NO
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Winter semester
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0 / 0
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0 / 8
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0 / 6
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Timetable
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Yes
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Semester taught
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Summer semester
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Minimum (B + C) students
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not determined
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Optional course |
Yes
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Optional course
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Yes
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Language of instruction
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English
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Internship duration
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0
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No. of hours of on-premise lessons |
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Evaluation scale |
S|N |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Fundamental course |
No
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Evaluation scale |
S|N |
Substituted course
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None
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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N/A
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Informally recommended courses
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N/A
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Courses depending on this Course
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N/A
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Histogram of students' grades over the years:
Graphic PNG
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XLS
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Course objectives:
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Medicine is more than a way of research and treatment or creating of scientific concepts. It also affects society. The history of recent development of medical culture must be understand in broad scope. Thirteen selected topics will give an account of ideas, social relations, political economy and individual reactions, which influenced the development in medical field.
The main objective of the course is to introduce the last two centuries of the development of Western medicine and medical treatment. Lectures will give an explanations, for why medicine developed as it did, becoming one of the most important part of contemporary culture.
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Requirements on student
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Lessons will take the form of a debate about specific problems, for that is for students necessary to prepare on each lesson on the basis of specified text (will be available through the web sources). Essential will be an active participation in debate during the seminar.
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Content
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1) Anthropology of the body: The body as a substance, machine, genetic information or construction of a culture
Reading: Geurts, Culture and the Senses. Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community, Berkley 2002, p. 228-235.
2) Philosophical concepts and basic theoretical approaches of cultural anthropology to human body
Reading: Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, London 2013, p. 133-149.
3) Embodiment, madness and the healing of evil spirits
Reading: Csordas, Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology, Ethos 18 (1990), p. 5-47.
4) Physician as an institution. The doctor and a relationship with his patient
Reading: Porter, The Patinet´s View. Doing Medical History from Below, Theory and Society 14 (1985), p. 175-181.
5) Medicine and women. Social construct of masculinity and femininity, biological nature of the social and gender determinations of health
Reading: Shorter, A History of Women´s Bodies, New Haven 1982, p. 4-17.
6) Epidemics - plague, syphilis, black pox
Reading: Showalter, Sexual Anarchy, London 2010, p. 188-189.
7) Disease as a stigma - tuberculosis, gout, nervousness, obesity
Reading: Porter - Rousseau, Gout. The Patrician Malady, New Haven 1998, p. 71-73.
8) Discursive approaches to the "diseases" of 19th century, onania, hypochondria, hysteria
Reading: Stengers, Masturbation: The history of a great terror, New York 2001, p.53-59.
9) Historical concepts of pain
Reading: Scarry, The Body in Pain. The Making and Unmaking of the World, New York 1985, p. 25-59.
10) Alternative methods of treatment. Homeopathy, mesmerism, hydropathy. Acceptance of the non-conventional principles by contemporary medicine
Reading: Dinges, Medical Pluralism and Homoeopathy in India and Germany (1810-2010), Stuttgart 2014, p. 7-30.
11) Medical treatment and space - public spaces, hospitals, spas
Reading: Casey, From space to place in contemporary health care, Social science & Medicine 56 (2003), p. 2245-2247.
12) Futures of medicine
Reading: Bynum (et al.), Western Medical Tradition 1800 to 2000, Cambridge 2006, p. 52-81.
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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Literature
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Recommended:
Shorter E. A History of Women´s Bodies. New Haven, 1982.
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Recommended:
Geurts K. L. Culture and the Senses. Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community. Berkley, 2002.
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Recommended:
Csrdas T. Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology. Ethos 18, 1990.
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Recommended:
Merleau-Ponty M. Phenomenology of Perception. London, 2013.
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Recommended:
Porter R. The Patinet´s View. Doing Medical History from Below. The Patinet´s View. Doing Medical History from Below, 1985.
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Recommended:
Bynum et al. Western Medical Tradition 1800 to 2000. Cambridge, 2006.
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
Willingness to active parcitipate in debates. Comunication in English. |
Competences acquired |
The students will be familiar with the methods and results of research in contemporary social history of medicine and history and anthropology of the body. The objective of the workshop in each lesson is aimed also on the developing of participants skills of critical thinking and the ability of analysis and interpretation of the historical text. |
Teaching methods |
- Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
- Work with text (with textbook, with book)
- Demonstration
- Projection
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Assessment methods |
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