MAJOR COURSE PROGRAM

1. The Global Medicine Course
1.1. Introduction of teacher and students.
1.2. Presentation of the course, and its objectives
1.3. Round of inquiries about what they expect from the course
1.4. Short discussion about methodology and elaboration of final works
2. Health & Disease
2.1. What is Health, What is disease (Brainstorming)
2.2. History of the concepts (Class)
2.3. Relationships with global medicine (discussion panel).
3. Medicine as Natural, Human and Social Science
3.1. Different kind of sciences and different ways for search the knowledge (Class)
3.2. Is Medicine Natural or Social? How must be? (Debate)
3.3. Assignation of themes for the final works
4. Field trip 1: Visit to the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
4.1. Public Health in early XX century
4.2. Modernism for the people.
5. Natural Disasters: Natural phenomena, Politics, Actions, Plans (Seminar)
5.1. Meteorology and Geology
5.2. Study of recent cases of natural disaster: Tsunami of Asia, Katrina, Haiti’s Earthquake and governmental reactions.
5.3. Global community, charity and aid programs.
6. The Instrument, the tool and the object: Material culture of the discipline
6.1. What is an Instrument? What is a tool? What is an object? (brainstorming)
6.2. Presentation of different kind of apparatus from the collection of Museum of History of Medicine (PowerPoint presentation)
6.3. Importance of artefacts in science (discussion)
7. Visit to Empuries & Figueres: Hippocratic theories – Galenism
7.1. Hippocratic Oath. (Exercise: A little bit of theatre)
7.2. Galeno, the Doctor of Gladiators.
8. Field trip 2: Visit to Anatomical Theatre of Barcelona
8.1. Medicine in the Enlightenment.
8.2. Literary meetings of the Academy.
9. Human Anatomy and Physiology (Expositions in groups of 2-3 students)
9.1. Neurology, the brain and the senses.
9.2. Circulatory system.
9.3. Excretion system.
10. Anatomy Lab: Meeting the Organs
10.1. Presentation of the Laboratory.
10.2. Practice with real organs, identification of functional structures.
10.3. Presentation of results.
10.4. Guide for the elaboration of one laboratory report.
11. The Red Cross, Médecins sans Frontières and the NGO’s (Seminar)
11.1. History of Red Cross (Research homework)
11.2. Importance of the institution.
11.3. History and Mission of Medicos sin Fronteras (Research homework)
11.4. Presence of NGO’s in the world, elaboration of maps of health.
12. Medicine & Sport
12.1. (GUEST SPEAKER: Yoko TOCHIGI, PhD Student in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, writing her Thesis about The divulgation of Medic and Hygienic Ideas in Sport Press)
13. Visit to Girona: Medieval practices
13.1. Islamic knowledge of Medicine, heritage of Greece and Rome.
13.2. The Jewish scientific tradition in the Iberian lands.
13.3. Medicine and Surgery in Girona.
14. Pandemics, Vaccinations, the work in the lab
14.1. The Rage.
14.2. The Cholera.
14.3. Developing treatments, and productions of vaccines and serums.
14.4. Eradication of risk factors.
14.5. Crosswords.
15. Field trip 3: Visit to Monestir de Pedralbes: Botanic Pharmacy
15.1. Take care of sick people, one Christian duty.
15.2. Botanic gardens for health.
16. FAO (Food &Agriculture Organization), the alimentary health and WHO (World Health Organization) and his role in the world’s welfare (Roundtable)
16.1. Nutrition and agriculture in the world, diseases related with alimentation.
16.2. The role of WHO in the prevention of disease around the world.
16.3. United Nations programs.
16.4. UNICEF.
17. OSEZNOS ERRANTES: Meeting the Global Medicine course.
17.1. Health and disease conclusions of the group.
17.2. Medicine as Natural, Human and Social Science.
17.3. Natural Disasters: Natural phenomena, Politics, Actions, Plans.
17.4. Pandemics, Vaccinations, the work in the lab.
17.5. Bio-Ethic.
18. Medicine on Wars: Biological and Chemical Weapons, Advances in Science due to the conflict.
18.1. (GUEST SPEAKER: Pablo VIDAL, Director of one Documentary about the conflict in Sahara
19. Bio-Ethic
19.1. What is Ethic? Is necessary in Science or Medicine? (Essay exercise on: Euthanasia, organs donation, clonation and DNA manipulation, Science in the Death camps of Nazis, Animal experimentation)
19.2. Debate.
19.3. Conclusion round.
20. Medicine in undeveloped countries: Tuberculosis, Malaria, Sexual transmitted diseases. Seminar and discussion about readings on following topics:
20.1. Asia and Tuberculosis.
20.2. Africa and the AIDS.
20.3. South America and Malaria.
21. Visit to Montserrat: Medieval Order and Christianity
21.1. The Social order of Medieval times.
21.2. The Doctor, the Lawman and the Priest.
22. Final Session (Round table)
22.1. Final conclusions for the course.
22.2. Presentation of Final Works.