Unit CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
- Course
- Educational counselling and coordination of pedagogic practices
- Study-unit Code
- GP004310
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Stefania Magliani
- Teachers
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- Stefania Magliani
- Hours
- 36 ore - Stefania Magliani
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline filosofiche e storiche
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/04
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- History of medicine and health in their institutional, educational and civil developments
- Reference texts
- Giorgio Cosmacini, Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia, Bari, Laterza, 2016 (from p. 209 to p. 511)
For Erasmus students, alternatively:
JASPER RIDLEY, Garibaldi, London, Constable, 1974
or
JOSÉ RAMÓN URQUIJO GOITIA, Gobiernos y ministros españoles en la edad contemporanea, Madrid, Consejo superior de investigaciones científicas, 2008 - Educational objectives
- Knowledge of legislation and health policy in contemporary Italy
Knowledge dynamics linking health, politics and society at large.
Knowledge of related bibliography.
Giving the students the skills to understand a research, its development and its presentation.
Being able to understand complex historical dynamics.
Being able to locate events in the related context, being able to identify their causes and grasp its effects.
Being able to effectively communicate the results of a research. - Prerequisites
- not required
- Teaching methods
- Traditional classes on all issues of the course
Some of the issues will be further investigated through original documents.
Discussions on specific issues will be carried out to verify the level of students' learning process and to stimulate their critical skills. - Other information
- nothing
- Learning verification modality
- Oral exam. The exam consists of a series of questions aimed at verifying: the knowledge of the material listed in the program, the methodological approach to historical issues, the skills to communicate, the use of a language specific to the discipline. The duration will be gaged to the minimal time necessary to verify the knowledge of the subject according to the aim of the exam
- Extended program
- Introduction to the history of medicine and health between the 18th and 19th centuries
From the pre-unity States to unified Italy: reforms, structures, politics and health
The great cholera epidemics: the institutional response, the social reaction
War, medicine and health
Sanitary reforms and the therapeutical revolution in Republican Italy