aBFET031 Health Care Ethics

Faculty of Medicine
Autumn 2017
Extent and Intensity
1/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Josef Kuře, Dr. phil. (lecturer)
Mgr. Michaela Vaňharová, Ph.D. (assistant)
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
Wed 15:30–17:10 A19/113
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course provides an introduction to health care ethics, focusing on ethical problems of health care professions. The aim of the course is: to introduce to health care ethics; to inform about ethical dilemmas in health care professions; to learn how to solve ethical problems in health care, including argumentation; to develop ability for perceiving ethical questions within health care - to learn how to prevent problems observing ethical professional standards.
Learning outcomes
After completing the subject, the student will be able: - to identify ethical aspects of health care - to analyze ethical dilemmas in health care - to apply the ethical normative tools
Syllabus
  • • Introduction to health care ethics • Models of relationships within health care (and their development) • Informed consent • Patients´ rights • Medical information and confidentiality • Personal data protection in health care • Ethics in PND and PGD • Ethics in care for dying persons • Euthanasia, assisted suicide • Ethics in biomedical research • Human subject research • Animal research • Human biological material for research • Ethics and law (Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, Declaration on Human Rights and Bioethics)
Literature
  • Principles of health care ethics. Edited by Richard E. Ashcroft - Angus Dawson - Heather Draper. 2nd ed. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2007, xx, 838. ISBN 9780470027134. info
  • The Sage handbook of health care ethics : core and emerging issues. Edited by Ruth F. Chadwick - Henk ten Have - Eric M. Meslin. 1st ed. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2011, xxi, 454. ISBN 9781446200971. info
  • Ethicsthe heart of health care. Edited by David Seedhouse. 3rd ed. Chichester, U.K.: Values Exchange, 2009, lx, 212 p. ISBN 0470018135. info
  • HELD, Virginia. The ethics of care : personal, political, and global. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, viii, 211. ISBN 0195180992. info
  • HALL, Robert T. An introduction to healthcare organizational ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, xii, 265. ISBN 0195135601. info
  • A cross-cultural dialogue on health care ethics. Edited by Harold G. Coward - Phinit Rattanakun. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999, xii, 274 p. ISBN 0889203253. info
Teaching methods
lecture with discussion
Assessment methods
Full attendance, written test (colloquium), paper (exam)
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: podzimní semestr.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2016, autumn 2018, autumn 2019, autumn 2020, autumn 2021.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2017, recent)
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