Syllabi: History of Medicine

INSTITUTION: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine

PRESENTER: Emil Dickstein, M.D., is a Youngstown internist in private practice, a member of the Department of Medicine of the Western Reserve Care System, and Associate Professor of Medicine at NEOUCOM.

PROGRAM DIRECTOR: Martin Kohn,Ph.D., Director of the Human Values in Medicine Program (email: mfk@neoucom.EDU)

ENROLLMENT: BS/MD; selective; limit: 15

SEMESTER: Spring 2000
April 17, 19, 24, 26 May 1, 3, 8, 10 (Monday/Wednesday afternoons 1:00-5:00 p.m.)

LEARNING GOALS: Students will study the development of medicine, encompassing physicians, disease, and society, its main pathway and byways, fits and starts.

Students will learn and reflect on the continuous interplay of the rational and irrational in medicine; the influences of the past on the present; the changing ethical relationships between physicians and patients; the doctor's obligations to society, self, and science; the goals of the physician's art; the role of technology through the ages; and medicine's role in the everyday meaning of life, past and present.

METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Lecture, class discussions, slides, movies, medical artifacts, readings, and a field trip.

OUTLINE: Seven classroom sessions will survey the entire gamut of the History of Medicine, and one session will be spent at the Howard Dittrick Museum of Historical Medicine in Cleveland.

REQUIREMENTS: Attendance, class participation, and a required short paper.

READING LIST:
Bettmann, Otto L. A Pictorial History of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois: Chas. C. Thomas, publisher, Fifth Printing, 1979.

Class handouts.