Philosophy of medicine: its scope and subject matter
Defining health and disease
Theories and models in medicine
Materialism and reductionism in science and medicine
Probability and randomness
Causality and induction
Randomised controlled trials and study design
Some central measures in clinical medicine
Reasoning in clinical practice: prevention, diagnosis, therapy, prognosis, palliation and rehabilitation
Medicine from first-person perspectives: phenomenology, narrative of knowledge and qualitative approaches to knowledge creation and use in medicine
Neurosciences and diseases of the mind
The varieties of modern medicine: evolutionary medicine, evidence-based medicine, precision and personalised medicine, alternative medicines and managing epidemics.