wmds1106  2019-2020  Bruxelles Woluwe

Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
3 credits
30.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Verdée Peter;
Language
French
Content
Course overview:
  1. General Introduction
    • What is philosophy? Philosophy seen as the original science
    • Historical and thematic introduction
    • Relationship between medicine and philosophy
  2. Ontology
    • Body and mind. The concepts of reduction, emergence and emergence
    • Life: Its evolution and attempts to delineate the concept
    • Illness and Health. Normality and Pathology
  3. Epistemology
    • EBM (Evidence Based Medicine) and its limitations
    • Causality in medicine and the importance of statistics
  4. Logic
    • Medical diagnosis: forms of reasoning
  5. Philosophy of science
    • Values in science
    • Pseudoscience / alternative medicine
  6. Ethics
    • Morality in medicine (responsibility, ethics, legality, usefulness of expertise)
  7. Phenomenology
    • Pain and well-being
Teaching methods
Ex cathedra course with some exercises in small groups
Evaluation methods
January
  • Writing exercise during the quadrimester
  • Multiple choice exam in the January exam period
Juin
  • Writing exercise to be handed in during the Juin exam period
  • Multiple choice exam in the Juin exam period
September
  • Writing exercise to be handed in during the September exam period
  • Multiple choice exam in the September exam period
Bibliography
  • Une collection de textes
  • Le powerpoint de tous les cours
Teaching materials
  • Une collection de textes
  • Le powerpoint de tous les cours
Faculty or entity
MED


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Bachelor in Medecine

Bachelor in Dentistry