1.         Master basic concepts from history of medicine

2.         Recognize fundamental processes from the social history of medicine and the history of epidemics

3.         Distinguish processes of individual historical periods and the social history of medicine themes according to historiographic approaches and research achievements

4.         Recognize the hierarchy of historical factors and explain the causality of historical processes 

5.         Critically analyze and interpret historical records

Blažina Tomić, Zlata. Blažina Vesna. Expelling the Plague: The Health Office and the Implementation of Quarantine in Dubrovnik 1377-1533. Montreal&Kingston, London, and Ithaca: McGillQueen's University Press, 2015. (selected chapters)

Harrison, Mark. Disease and the Modern World. 1500 to the present day. Cambridge: Polity press, 2004. (selected chapters)

Omran, Abdel R. The Epidemiologic Transition: A Theory of the Epidemiology of Population Change. The Milbank Quarterly 83(4): 731-757.

Porter, Roy. The greatest benefit to mankind. A medical history of humanity from antiquity to the present. London: Fontana Press, 1997. (selected chapters)

Rothenberg, Gunther E. The Austrian Sanitary Cordon and the Control of the Bubonic Plague: 1710-1871. Journal of the History of Medicine, 1973.

Snowden Frank M., Epidemics and Society from the Black Death to the Present. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019. (selected chapters)

Dugac, Željko. Kako biti čist i zdrav. Zdravstveno prosvjećivanje u međuratnoj Hrvatskoj. Zagreb: Srednja Europa, 2010. 

Grmek, Mirko Dražen. Diseases in the Ancient Greek World. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Grmek, Mirko Dražen. History of AIDS: Emergence and Origin of a Modern Pandemic. Princeton University Press, 1990.

Spinney, Laura. Pale Rider. The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World. London: Vintage, 2017.

1. Regular attendance at classes – attendance of at least 70 % of classes according to the study program.

2. Fully completed seminar obligations - prepared and submitted assignments (critical analysis of selected historical records)

3. Obtaining a minimum success rate of 35 % during classes within the assigned teaching activities - achieved cumulatively.

1. Teaching activities (continuous knowledge assessment, midterm exams, seminar).
2. Final exam (oral or written)

Grade Scale:

insufficient (1) – 0 to 49.9%

sufficient (2) – 50–64.9%

good (3) – 65–79.9%

very good (4) – 80–89.9%

excellent (5) – 90% and above.

a) Teaching activities:

1. Seminar obligations – 20 % of the grade
2. Midterm exam – 50 % of the grade

b) Final exam:

1. Final exam – oral or written: 30 % of the grade (to pass, it is necessary to solve at least 50% of the exam)