HISTORY OF MEDICINE SYLLABUS
Patient-physician relationship; Medical geography; Medicine of Ancient Greece; Hellenistic-Roman
Medicine; Pythagoras; Alcmaeon; Hippocrates; Rational medicine; Theory of humors; Aristotle;
Empirical School of Alexandria; Methodical School of Alexandria; Galen; Schola Medica
Salernitana; Dissection; Andreas Vesalius; Scientific Revolution; William Harvey; Ignaz
Semmelweis; Edward Jenner; Vaccine; Alexander Fleming.

HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Porter R. Medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2000.

HISTORY OF MEDICINE SYLLABUS
Patient-physician relationship; Medical geography; Medicine of Ancient Greece; Hellenistic-Roman
Medicine; Pythagoras; Alcmaeon; Hippocrates; Rational medicine; Theory of humors; Aristotle;
Empirical School of Alexandria; Methodical School of Alexandria; Galen; Schola Medica
Salernitana; Dissection; Andreas Vesalius; Scientific Revolution; William Harvey; Ignaz
Semmelweis; Edward Jenner; Vaccine; Alexander Fleming.

HISTORY OF MEDICINE
- Porter R. Medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2000.

APPLIED ECONOMICS SYLLABUS
- Pareto-efficiency and market failures: asymmetric information, externalities, moral hazard and
adverse selection
- The economic analysis of healthcare
- Cost effectiveness, cost utility and cost benefit analyses

APPLIED ECONOMICS
Wondeling, Gruen, Black. Introduction to health economics. Understanding Public Health. 1st edition.
Additional materials ( Power point slides) will be provided alongside classes.

APPLIED ECONOMICS SYLLABUS
- Pareto-efficiency and market failures: asymmetric information, externalities, moral hazard and
adverse selection
- The economic analysis of healthcare
- Cost effectiveness, cost utility and cost benefit analyses

The course is divided in frontal lectures, 70 hours . The professors use educational tools such as
presentations organized in power point files with explanatory diagrams, illustrations and images,
videos, movies to describe concepts and methodologies. The attendance at lectures is mandatory.

MORAL PHILOSOPHY SYLLABUS
Course presentation and introduction. “Moral System”; “Methodology of Moral Philosophy”; Moral
and “Moral Law”; the most significant current ethics problems in the field of medicine; the
scientific basis that characterizes the medical intervention and defines medicine as a science; the
awareness of moral dimension of medicine and health professions; empathy; narrative medicine in
digital age; the relationship between science and ethics; ethics committee at different level; the
significant elements to treat the patient in addition to the physiological ones: economic,
anthropological, social, ethical and relational; cross-cultural medicine; “Human Rights and Health”;
relationship between Human Right and Health; Ethics and social media; Millennium Development
Goals and Sustainable Millennium Development Goals; Health ethics: tension between social
benefits and individual freedom; Global health and new challenges in a globalized world: health
diplomacy and Ethics; Ethics; Health and International Cooperation;
Moreover the course deals with the actual and interdisciplinary theme of Health Diplomacy
between Ethics and Medicine, and how it could represent a new border both as a tool for a new
international diplomatic intervention and as a pacific solution for the disagreements on wide scale,
and as a new field of international cooperation.

S. Boccanelli e L.E.Pacifici Noja Global Health, INDIRITTO ed 2022 Rome
Fabio IODICE, Notes of Moral Philosophy and Fundamentals of Ethics, First edition (Rome, 2020).
L.E.Pacifici Noja Health and Ethics, TAB ed 2019 Rome

MORAL PHILOSOPHY SYLLABUS
Course presentation and introduction. “Moral System”; “Methodology of Moral Philosophy”; Moral
and “Moral Law”; the most significant current ethics problems in the field of medicine; the
scientific basis that characterizes the medical intervention and defines medicine as a science; the
awareness of moral dimension of medicine and health professions; empathy; narrative medicine in
digital age; the relationship between science and ethics; ethics committee at different level; the
significant elements to treat the patient in addition to the physiological ones: economic,
anthropological, social, ethical and relational; cross-cultural medicine; “Human Rights and Health”;
relationship between Human Right and Health; Ethics and social media; Millennium Development
Goals and Sustainable Millennium Development Goals; Health ethics: tension between social
benefits and individual freedom; Global health and new challenges in a globalized world: health
diplomacy and Ethics; Ethics; Health and International Cooperation;
Moreover the course deals with the actual and interdisciplinary theme of Health Diplomacy
between Ethics and Medicine, and how it could represent a new border both as a tool for a new
international diplomatic intervention and as a pacific solution for the disagreements on wide scale,
and as a new field of international cooperation.

S. Boccanelli e L.E.Pacifici Noja Global Health, INDIRITTO ed 2022 Rome
Fabio IODICE, Notes of Moral Philosophy and Fundamentals of Ethics, First edition (Rome, 2020).
L.E.Pacifici Noja Health and Ethics, TAB ed 2019 Rome