2024
Paleopathology II
Name: Paleopathology II
Code: BIO14697M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Biological Sciences
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Presentation
This UC aims to provide fundamental skills in the area of paleopathology, acquire the ability to plan and execute work and develop a critical thinking about the results. Neoplastic, congenital, degenerative, metabolic, endocrine, oral and traumatic pathologies will be addressed.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
This CU aims to:
1. Provide theoretical knowledge about the causes and manifestations of skeletal disease and practical experience in the identification and paleopathology diagnosis;
2. Discuss the relationship between disease, activity and diet, as well as the epidemiological transition and the epidemiology of pathologies and their impact on the individual and the population;
3. Develop critical thinking about the methodologies to be applied in laboratory research as well as about the results interpretations to which the investigations lead.
With this CU students will acquire fundamental skills in the area of paleopathology, the ability to plan and execute work and develop critical thinking about the results.
1. Provide theoretical knowledge about the causes and manifestations of skeletal disease and practical experience in the identification and paleopathology diagnosis;
2. Discuss the relationship between disease, activity and diet, as well as the epidemiological transition and the epidemiology of pathologies and their impact on the individual and the population;
3. Develop critical thinking about the methodologies to be applied in laboratory research as well as about the results interpretations to which the investigations lead.
With this CU students will acquire fundamental skills in the area of paleopathology, the ability to plan and execute work and develop critical thinking about the results.
Contents
1. Neoplasias
1.1. Benign
1.2. Malign
1.3. Metastasis
2. Congenital pathologies
3. Metabolic pathologies
4. Endocrine pathologies
5. Circulatory pathologies
6. Degenerative pathologies
6.1. Articular
6.2. Non-articular
7. Oral pathologies
7.1. Caries
7.2. Abscesses
7.3. Dental calculus
7.4. Periodontal disease
7.5. Dental wear
8. Trauma
1.1. Benign
1.2. Malign
1.3. Metastasis
2. Congenital pathologies
3. Metabolic pathologies
4. Endocrine pathologies
5. Circulatory pathologies
6. Degenerative pathologies
6.1. Articular
6.2. Non-articular
7. Oral pathologies
7.1. Caries
7.2. Abscesses
7.3. Dental calculus
7.4. Periodontal disease
7.5. Dental wear
8. Trauma
Teaching Methods
Teaching methodology:
- TP: three hours per week supported by audiovisual media, Moodle platform and bibliography. Additionally, students will have access to osteological material in order to follow, experimentally and sequentially, the entire syllabus and identify the etiology of lesions. Classes will be complemented with lectures, on-site or on-line, given by international renown experts in paleopathology.
- TP: three hours per week supported by audiovisual media, Moodle platform and bibliography. Additionally, students will have access to osteological material in order to follow, experimentally and sequentially, the entire syllabus and identify the etiology of lesions. Classes will be complemented with lectures, on-site or on-line, given by international renown experts in paleopathology.
Assessment
Continuous and final assessment will have the same components:
Continuos Assessment: Practical work (50%): throughout the classes the students will fill in the laboratory sheets referring to the skeletons that will be analyzed. These sheets will be collected by the teachers at the end of the classes.
Theoretical work (50%): essay having as theme one of the pathologies, or type of pathologies, studied in this CU.
Final assessment: The final assessment will be obtained through the arithmetic average of the practical and theoretical components.
Students will have the opportunity to carry out a final assessment consisting of a practical work (with the description and analysis of lesions in a skeleton selected by the teaching staff) and a theoretical work on one of the pathologies, or type of pathologies, studied in these UC.
The final classification will be obtained through the arithmetic mean between the components.
Continuos Assessment: Practical work (50%): throughout the classes the students will fill in the laboratory sheets referring to the skeletons that will be analyzed. These sheets will be collected by the teachers at the end of the classes.
Theoretical work (50%): essay having as theme one of the pathologies, or type of pathologies, studied in this CU.
Final assessment: The final assessment will be obtained through the arithmetic average of the practical and theoretical components.
Students will have the opportunity to carry out a final assessment consisting of a practical work (with the description and analysis of lesions in a skeleton selected by the teaching staff) and a theoretical work on one of the pathologies, or type of pathologies, studied in these UC.
The final classification will be obtained through the arithmetic mean between the components.
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