AETIp Biomedical Ethics
Faculty of MedicineAutumn 2013
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/0/0. 1 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Josef Kuře, Dr. phil. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Josef Kuře, Dr. phil.
Department of Medical Ethics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Josef Kuře, Dr. phil.
Supplier department: Department of Medical Ethics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine - Timetable
- Thu 26. 9. to Fri 20. 12. Thu 15:00–15:50 B11/334
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
- Course objectives
- The course gives an introduction to biomedical ethics, focusing on ethical problems of health care professionals. The aim of the course is: to introduce to biomedical ethics; to inform about ethical dilemmas in health care professions; to learn how to solve ethical problems in health care, including argumentation; to develop the ability to perceive ethical questions within health care; to learn how to prevent problems observing ethical professional standards.
- Syllabus
- 1. Introduction into biomedical ethics. 2. Science - technique - ethics. 3. Why is the biomedical technology a subject of ethics? 4. Informed consent. 5. Patient's rights. 6. Medical information. 7. Personal data protection in health care. 8. Assisted reproduction. 9. Medical futility, euthanasia, assisted suicide. 10. Human subject research. 11. Animal research. 12. Human biological material research. 13. Enhancement. 14. Ethical and legal regulation in biomedicine. 15. Ethics committees.
- Literature
- required literature
- Od narození do smrti : etické problémy v lékařství. Edited by David C. Thomasma - Thomasine Kimbrough Kushner, Translated by Lucie M. Vyd. 1. Praha: Mladá fronta, 2000, 389 s. ISBN 8020408835. info
- recommended literature
- MORIN, Edgar. Věda a svědomí. Translated by Ivana Holzbachová. Vyd. 1. V Brně: Atlantis, 1995, 133 s. ISBN 8071081086. info
- GLANNON, Walter. Biomedical ethics. 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, x, 176. ISBN 0195144317. info
- MAPPES, Thomas A. and David DEGRAZIA. Biomedical ethics. 5th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2001, xii, 706. ISBN 0072303654. info
- WEIR, Robert F., Robert S. OLICK and Jeffrey C. MURRAY. Stored tissue issue : biomedical research, ethics, and law in the era of genomic medicine. 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, xvii, 339. ISBN 0195123689. info
- PETRŮ, Marek. Možnosti transgrese : je třeba vylepšovat člověka? Vyd. 1. Praha: Triton, 2005, 268 s. ISBN 8072546104. info
- Teaching methods
- lecture
- Assessment methods
- Exam Requirements: final written test, case study
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2013, recent)
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