Introduction to Human Studies - DA0101461

• Title: Introduction to Human Studies
• Guaranteed by: Department of Medical Ethics and Humanities (13-711)
• Faculty: Second Faculty of Medicine
• Actual: from 2018
• Semester: winter
• Points: 4
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, C [HT]; summer s.:0/2, C+Ex [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 28 [weeks]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown); summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: Mgr. et Mgr. Martin Zielina, Ph.D.
• Classification: Philosophy > External Subjects

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Jakub Kuchař, Ph.D. (14.02.2020)

Psycho-social aspects of medicine. Name of lecturer: Jakub Kuchař ([e-mail])

Aim of the course

Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Martin Zielina, Ph.D. (23.10.2017)

Students should learn that medicine has also many social, cultural and psychological features whose knowledge is important in medical practice and medical research.

Course completion requirements

Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Martin Zielina, Ph.D. (23.10.2017)

Two credits for active and personal participations in seminars and lectures, plus final examinations.

Literature

Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Martin Zielina, Ph.D. (23.10.2017)

+Baum, A.: Cambridge handbook of psychology,health and medicine : Cambridge university press, 1997 (B)

We use various internet resources, texts prepared by teachers, contents of lectures and discussions in seminars.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Martin Zielina, Ph.D. (23.10.2017)

Examination: Contents of lectures and seminar topics.

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Martin Zielina, Ph.D. (23.10.2017)

Introduction to Human Studies, Humanism.

Sociology of medicine: Health care system as a value laden institution-Right to health care?

Psychic development, life span and related tasks of medicine.

Sociology of medicine: Medicalization of modern life.

Totalitarian and democratic (social) structures and their reflections and infiltrations in medical world. Misuse of medicine in totalitarian systems.

Sociology of medicine: Health and social status.

An encounter of patient and physician in the modern world (multiculturalism, technical devices, personalities and individualities, roles, communications and relations).

Consciousness and unconscious, rational and irrational, real and fantastic in human life, behaviour, and seeking and consuming medical care.

Psychosomatic views in medicine - history.

Current psychosomatic views in medicine.

Ethical issues: introduction.

Ethical issues in medicine: doctor - patient relationship.

Medical Ethics - doctor and society.

Medical ethics - research.