Humanities (Science of education, General Psychology, History of Medicine, Sociology, Developmental and educational psyc

Lecture 1
Why study the history of medicine? Paleopathology and the history of disease. From Prehistory to Antiquity. The sources for study.
Lecture 2
Medicine in the ancient Greek world. Greek myths. Early schools. Women's medicine.
Lecture 3
Medicine in the Hellenistic-Roman world. Domestic medicine. The figure of the physician. Medicine in the Arab world.
Lecture 4
The Middle Ages and monastic medicine. Birth of the hospital. Schools of medicine. The Black Death. The Renaissance. Knowing the body. The pandemic of syphilis. Medicine in the 16th century.
Lecture 5
The 17th century. Scientific birth: circulation, microscopy, obstetrics. The 18th century: vaccination and scurvy. The 19th century: advances, microbiology, semeiotics, and anesthesia. Florence Nightingale. X-rays.

Lecture 1
Basic concepts: education, training and instruction; teaching; pedagogy.
Basic concepts: models of learning and teaching
Lesson 2
Basic concepts: formal, nonformal, informal education
Formal education and educational diagnosis
Lesson 3
Educational relationship and its elements: asymmetry and reciprocity; intentionality
Maternal and paternal code
Educational styles
Lecture 4
Adult Education, from the perspective of lifelong learning: the perspectives of Jack Mezirow and Malcolm Knowles.
Lesson 5
Elements of educational design: goal setting, expected outcomes, evaluation of interventions.

Lecture 1
Introduction to general psychology. Visual perception and attention
Lecture 2
Memory, learning, emotion and motivation.
Lecture 3
Health psychology: purposes, contexts, perspectives and illness representations.
Lecture 4
Health psychology: from the biomedical model to the biopsychosocial model. Recent theoretical models.
Lesson 5.
Doctor-patient communication, teamworking.

- Motor development
- Cognitive development
- The development of language and communication
- The development of emotions and socio-emotional skills
- Attachment relationships
- The Theory of Mind
- Moral and social development
- The evolution of the concepts of health and illness
- Educational relationships and therapeutic relationships
- Health education and therapeutic education
- Psycho-pedagogical approach to patients

- What is sociology? Individual and Society: social interaction, status and social roles, institutions, socialization processes, and process of identity construction. Conformity and deviance to norms: who are the "deviants"?
- History of madness and the birth of the asylum (psychiatric hospital). Forms of internment and institutionalization of the asylum. Doctor-patient relationship: objectification of the patient's body
- A classic of sociology: Erving Goffman, "Asylum. The total institutions". What are total health institutions. Social aspect of mental illness. Encompassing power. The relationship between inmates and the staff.
- Social inequality: class dimension - Franco Basaglia and the processes of de-institutionalisation. Facing the social problem of illness. Doctor/patient relationship: care-control. Mental health patient as subject of rights.
- Social inequality: race dimension - Franz Fanon and colonialism. The biography of patients: the colonized body. Doctor/patient relationship: situational diagnosis
- Social inequality: gender dimension - Liv Strömquist and the medicalized gender.
- Health and Migration today: intersection of race, gender, class in the relationship between healthcare professionals and migrant patients. Critically understanding of the role of cultural differences: the relationship patient/illness, the practice of care, the relationship with the resources offered by the healthcare system