• Literature, Cinema and Medicine.
• 3credits
• From 5 to 11 May 2005

Coordinator:

Francisco Morales (Department of pharmacology of the Universitat de València)

Lecturers:

Josep Eladi Baños. Associated Professor of the experimental and health sciences department of the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)..

Description i Objectives:

Literary works and movies based on books are an important source of knowledge that are not among treaties or habitual university teaching manuals of health sciences. The use of these works might allow the approach to aspects related to sanitary professions, the social vision and the experience of illness, or difficulties and limits of scientific investigation in health issues.

The objective of this course is to contribute to the humanistic formation of students of sciences and health sciences. To approach students to the social aspects of health, illness, the different experiences if illness both from the point of view of the patient and the professional, and to know the difficulties and validity of the results in the scientific investigation in health sciences.

The course will develop alternating theoretical exposition with the commented reading of selected texts, and the projection and discussion of movies based on literary works.

Programme of the sessions:

• 5 May
  • From 4 p.m. to 4 p.m. Course Presentation
  • From 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. The reason of the interest in literature and cinema on medicine.
  • From 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Readings and debate.
• 6 May
  • From 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. The literary vision of the doctor–patient relationship
  • From 11 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. Film and debate: Sachs' Disease by Michel Deville (1999).
• 9 May
  • From 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Illness in first person.
  • From 11 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. Film and debate: The Doctor by Randa Haines (1991)
  • From 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. The consideration of medical practice in its historic and literary context.
  • From 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Readings and debate
• 10 May
  • From 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. The dilemmas of the biomedical investigation in literature.
  • From 11 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. Film and debate: Extreme Measures by Michel Apted (1996)
  • From 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. The social consideration of illness.
  • From 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Readings and debate.
• 11 May
  • From 10 a.m. to 10.45 a.m. Literary and film representation of illness.
  • From 10.45 a.m. to 2.15 p.m. Film and debate: Awakenings by Penny Marshall (1990)
  • From 2.15 p.m. to 2.30 p.m. Evaluation and closure of the course.

Places: 40

Location: Head office of the Fundación Cañada Blanch. Jorge Juan, 4-2nd.

Price: 50€