Seminar: History, Development and Methodology of Psychoneuroendocrinoimmunology
A.Y. 2023/2024
Learning objectives
Undefined
Expected learning outcomes
Undefined
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Giudizio di approvazione
Assessment result: superato/non superato
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Course syllabus
1. The holistic approach of ancient medicine in East and West.
In this first lecture, the interweaving of philosophical and medical knowledge will be reconstructed, beginning at the same historical stage (between VI and IV BC) in Greece and China. We will follow the evolution of the holistic view of the human being and treatment programs, centered on the "nutrition of life," to the threshold of the scientific revolution that will benefit from the fundamental contribution of Arab medicine and science.
2. The establishment of the dualist view of the human being and the scientific revolution in the West.
Analysis of the influence of the dominance of the dualistic view of the human being that arose with Christian philosophy (4th-5th cent.) and established itself with Descartes (17th cent.) in science. The clash between mechanism and vitalism: German and French physiology (19th cent.). The medical philosophers of the post-French Revolution period. The dominance of reductionism in medicine and nascent experimental psychology. James and Janet, thinkers on the countertrend.
3. The crisis of the reductionist model in medicine and psychology: PNEI as a new paradigm.
Revolution in the foundations of the sciences:
1) relativistic and quantum physics and the new view of relationships between phenomena;
2) the science of stress: from Selye to McEwen, from homeostasis to allostasis;
3) the study of molecular relationships between major biological regulatory systems and the psyche;
4) the epigenetic revolution;
5) the ongoing changes in psychological traditions and neuroscientific research.
In this first lecture, the interweaving of philosophical and medical knowledge will be reconstructed, beginning at the same historical stage (between VI and IV BC) in Greece and China. We will follow the evolution of the holistic view of the human being and treatment programs, centered on the "nutrition of life," to the threshold of the scientific revolution that will benefit from the fundamental contribution of Arab medicine and science.
2. The establishment of the dualist view of the human being and the scientific revolution in the West.
Analysis of the influence of the dominance of the dualistic view of the human being that arose with Christian philosophy (4th-5th cent.) and established itself with Descartes (17th cent.) in science. The clash between mechanism and vitalism: German and French physiology (19th cent.). The medical philosophers of the post-French Revolution period. The dominance of reductionism in medicine and nascent experimental psychology. James and Janet, thinkers on the countertrend.
3. The crisis of the reductionist model in medicine and psychology: PNEI as a new paradigm.
Revolution in the foundations of the sciences:
1) relativistic and quantum physics and the new view of relationships between phenomena;
2) the science of stress: from Selye to McEwen, from homeostasis to allostasis;
3) the study of molecular relationships between major biological regulatory systems and the psyche;
4) the epigenetic revolution;
5) the ongoing changes in psychological traditions and neuroscientific research.
Prerequisites for admission
None
Teaching methods
The seminar is divided into a series of frontal lectures.
Teaching Resources
cap. 1 di Botaccioli F., Botaccioli AG., Fondamenti di Psiconeuroendocrinoimmunologia, red!, Milano 2022;
capp. 1,2,3 di Botaccioli F., Botaccioli AG., Psiconeuroendocrinoimmunologia e scienza della cura integrata, Edra, Milano 2017.
Per approfondimenti:
1. Botaccioli F., Medicina per la filosofia. Filosofia per la medicina, II ed. Tecniche Nuove, Milano 2020
2. Botaccioli F., Bichat e Virchow. Die vie per la medicina scientifica al suo sorgere. Aracne, Roma, 2013
3. Botaccioli F., Botaccioli AG., Epigenetica e Psiconeuroendocrinoimmunologia. La rivoluzione in corso nelle scienze della vita, II ed., Edra, 2023
capp. 1,2,3 di Botaccioli F., Botaccioli AG., Psiconeuroendocrinoimmunologia e scienza della cura integrata, Edra, Milano 2017.
Per approfondimenti:
1. Botaccioli F., Medicina per la filosofia. Filosofia per la medicina, II ed. Tecniche Nuove, Milano 2020
2. Botaccioli F., Bichat e Virchow. Die vie per la medicina scientifica al suo sorgere. Aracne, Roma, 2013
3. Botaccioli F., Botaccioli AG., Epigenetica e Psiconeuroendocrinoimmunologia. La rivoluzione in corso nelle scienze della vita, II ed., Edra, 2023
Assessment methods and Criteria
The final examination will yield a pass/fail result. Modalities will be discussed with the lecturer.
Professor(s)