These curricula teach concepts and frameworks in medicine.
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- Introduction to Communitas and Immunitas — Roberto Esposito’s paired concepts of shared obligation and exemption, applied to COVID discourse and disability justice
- Introduction to Pain Science — why pain is a nervous system output, not a readout of tissue damage, and what that means clinically
- Introduction to Somatic Awareness — the body as experienced from within: sensory-motor amnesia, proprioception, interoception, and pandiculation
- Introduction to Psychological Defenses — automatic processes that protect against anxiety by distorting or denying threatening internal states
- Introduction to the Therapeutic Relationship — why the quality of the therapist-client relationship predicts outcomes more than technique
- Introduction to Pharmacology — how drugs interact with living systems: receptors, pharmacokinetics, therapeutic index, and harm reduction
- Introduction to the Human Body — the body as self-organizing system: cells, tissues, organs, and system integration
- Introduction to Airway Management — oxygenation vs. ventilation, staged escalation, and the logic of airway assessment
- Introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine — the body as functional geography: Three Treasures, Yin-Yang, Five Phases, Zang-Fu, and meridians