Unit 3 - Medical Practice in Antiquity
University of Thessaloniki (EL)
1.2 Learning Objectives
- Comprehension that ancient medicine deeply affected western medicine and society.
- Reinvention of ancient medicine under the prism of current fields of internal medicine, surgery, therapeutics, psychiatry, anatomy, ethics, and education.
- Evaluation of different interpretations of medical theories and practices, depending on the changes in science and society.
- Identification of the evolution of the meaning of “health” and “disease” and of the contribution of philosophy
- Comprehension of the progression from healer to physician
- Identification and distinction of diagnostic and prognostic methods in antiquity
- Definition of the symbolization of Asclepius’ rod with coiled snake
- Appraisal of the healing procedure in the Asclepieia
- Summarization of the importance of the Hippocratic medicine in the beginning of medical rationalization and in the foundation of the "pathophysiological theory" based on the body.
- Memorization of the main characteristics of the Hippocratic medicine
- Interrelation between the medical rationalization and the theory of the four humors.
- Subdivision of the etiology of humoral imbalance
- Pointing out the similarities between the Hippocratic protocol in clinical methodology and the modern one
- Definition of the three factors for successful treatment in the Hippocratic medicine
- Interrelation of the evolution of medicine during the Hellenistic period with the use of postmortem exanation (Herophilus and Erasistratus).
- Recognition of the galenic contribution to the evolution of medicine.
- Interpretation of the Galenic characteristics of a good doctor
- Evaluation of the main three Galenic functional systems
- Appraisal of the Galenic theory of pneuma
- Symmarization of the ancient therapeutic methods and interrelation with the theory of the four humors
