Medical Humanities

Adatok

A Tantárgybejelentőben megadott hivatalos adatok az alábbi tanévre: 2024-2025

Tematika

This interactive course is created to III.-IV. graders who have General Medicine, Dentistry or Pharmacy Major. Its lecturers are medical practitioners, who are all well-known and respected in their fields of medical practice. They all believe that the humanities play an important role in becoming a better doctor. The emphasis is, of course, on the medical aspects of the subjects, the arts and humanities parts are complementary information.

The subject is a balanced combination of the applied history of medicine, cultural history, art history and philosophy - with the admitted intention to create strong basis for students in critical and human-focused approaching of modern, evidence-based medicine.

Előadások

• 1. The summary of the subject and its relevance in the medical curriculum. C P Snow: The Two Cultures - theory - Molnár F. Tamás
• 2. The benefits, the usage and the risks of the History of Medicine and the Medical Humanities - Molnár F. Tamás
• 3. Diseases, therapy and literature. Tuberculosis - the white death - Molnár F. Tamás
• 4. Diseases and therapy - reflections. Asthma and allergy - Molnár F. Tamás
• 5. COPD and pathographies of cardiopulmonary - Molnár F. Tamás
• 6. Neuroendocrine tumors: Cushing to Kulchitsky - Molnár F. Tamás
• 7. Medical Humanistic approach of Surgery - Molnár F. Tamás
• 8. Forensics Medicine: literature, film and the modern media - the history behind the stories - Molnár F. Tamás
• 9. Infectious diseases and epidemics - their historical aspects and literary reflections (D. Defoe: A Journal of the Plaque Year) - Molnár F. Tamás
• 10. Cultural aspects of addictology - alcohol, nicotine, drugs and addicts - Molnár F. Tamás
• 11. Surgery of Penetrating Trauma of Chest Cavities - it's past, present and the arts (St. Sebastian) - Molnár F. Tamás
• 12. Oncology (W. H. Auden: Miss Gee, A. Solzhenitsyn: Cancer Ward, J. Updike) - Molnár F. Tamás
• 13. The Bible and medical treatment - Old Testament/New Testament - Molnár F. Tamás
• 14. The metamorphosis of the concept of health and illness: from the Ten Plaques of Egypt to the Purification through Suffering. The death - Thanatos, Styx - Molnár F. Tamás
• 15. Saints, the Christian Church and diseases - Patron Saints - Molnár F. Tamás
• 16. Graeco-Roman mythology and medicine - the frame of the mythology - Molnár F. Tamás
• 17. Syndromes: names, stories and medicine (from Münchausen to Pickwick) - Molnár F. Tamás
• 18. Social traumatology: the Trianon Syndrome - Molnár F. Tamás
• 19. Anaesthesia, Intensive therapy - lessons learnt from history - Molnár F. Tamás
• 20. The relation of literature to illnesses (Susan Sonntag: Illness as a Metaphore) - Molnár F. Tamás
• 21. Visual Arts and Anatomy - Molnár F. Tamás
• 22. Visual Arts and Clinical Medicine - Molnár F. Tamás
• 23. "How can I tell you?" - the communicative strategies of an educated MD about diagnose and prognosis. The acceptance of the unacceptable - and the bearer of bad news - Molnár F. Tamás
• 24. Patient and Doctor. Inside out - Molnár F. Tamás

Gyakorlatok

Szemináriumok

A tananyag elsajátításához szükséges segédanyagok

Kötelező irodalom

Saját oktatási anyag

Teaching materials of the course (from the instructors).

Jegyzet

Ajánlott irodalom

A félév elfogadásának feltételei

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Félévközi ellenőrzések

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Távolmaradás pótlásának lehetőségei

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Vizsgakérdések

Grades will be based on the lectures and the recommended readings.

Vizsgáztatók

Gyakorlatok, szemináriumok oktatói