Introduction to Medicine

CONTENTS

Short History of Medicine

• Earliest Medicine
• Medicine in the Middle Ages, Renaissance and the Modern Age
• Science and Technology Breakdowns and Breakthroughs

Introduction to Health Philosophy and Behavioral Medicine

• Modern Concept of Health and Disease
• What Influences Health? Human Ecology and Health
• The Development of Disease: Causal Models in Medicine
• Stress, Coping, Social Support and Health
• Culture, Lifestyle and Health-related Behaviors

Basic Principles of Preventive Medicine and Public Health

• Making Community Diagnosis and Health Plans
• Describing Health Problems in Populations
• Analyzing Health Problems in Populations
• Risk Perception and Risk Communication in Community Health
• Basic Theories of Prevention
• The Role of Screening in Preventive Medicine
• Behavioral Science Approach to Health Promotion and Health Education

Introduction to Medical Ethics

• Beginning of Medical Ethics in Western Medicine: The Hippocratic Oath
• Ethics, Morality and Ethical Theories
• The Birth of Bioethics and its Basic Principles