Kv2BP_BCHP Bioethics and charitable pastoral

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2012
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. MUDr. Augustin Svoboda, CSc., dr. h.c. (lecturer), Mgr. Jiří Mihola, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jaroslav Vaculík, CSc.
Department of History – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Jiří Mihola, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of History – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
Students will be able to understand the basic terms from medical ethics, biothics and charitable pastoral. They will be familiarized with a survey of ethic theories and international codices and conventions, that are the resource for juridical thought. They will get a survey of problem areas of given field including general principles and practical charitable pastoral.
Syllabus
  • Delimination of medical ethics, biothic as a part of ethics. Basic ethic theories. Religion and ethics. Christian ethics. Secular perspectives of ethics. Sexuality and reproduction, human life and its beginning. Biological individuality. Ontological statute of human embryo and fetus. Human (man) and his personality. Infertility and reproductive technologies. In vitro fertilization. Donation of embryos. Substitutive motherhood. Preservation of embryos. Research on embryos. Donation and sale of human gametes. Abortion. Sterilization. Human genome and application of knowledge. Genetic testing and prenatal diagnostics. Carrier screening. Gene therapy. Reproductive and therapeutic cloning. Transplantation. Care for the elderly and dying. Attitudes to death, Hospice Movement. Unseeded unnecessary treatment, not extending of burdensome treatment. Euthanasia. Care of dead body. Resuscitation, the right to refuse resuscitation. Patients´rights, medical mystery, informed consent. Right to treatment and rejection of treatment. Relationship between the doctor and the patient. Experiments on human. Resource allocation in health. Psychiatry and ethics, involuntary hospitalization and treatment, brain manipulation (electroshock, psychosurgery) Misuse of scientific knowledge. Ethic committee.Ethic consultation. Cultural pluralism. Ethics and a research on human and animals. Gene technologies. Environmental ethics. The principles of pastoral assistance in hospital, in hospices. Possibilities of social advice.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • PESCHKE, Karl-Heinz. Křesťanská etika. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vyšehrad, 1999, 695 s. ISBN 8070213310. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
credit on the basis of oral examination
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019.
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