BPET051c Health Care Ethics - seminar

Faculty of Medicine
Autumn 2013
Extent and Intensity
0/1.5/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lenka Bujoková (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Josef Kuře, Dr. phil. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Josef Kuře, Dr. phil.
Department of Medical Ethics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Supplier department: Department of Medical Ethics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Timetable
Wed 16. 10. to Fri 20. 12. Wed 12:35–13:50 A19/118
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course gives an introduction to health care ethics, with specific regard to midwifery. The aim of the course is: to provide a general introduction to health care ethics and to ethics in midwifery in particular; to give information about moral dilemmas in current health care; to learn how to prevent problems respecting ethical professional standards.
Syllabus
  • 1.Introduction (terminology, history, methods) 2. Patient rights - obligations of health care providers 3. Informed consent 4. Patient-physician relationship, patient-nurse relationship 5. Truth about diagnosis (ethics of communication) 6. Personal data protection in health care 7. Information and privacy protection, health care records, research 8. Transplantation ethics 9. Ethics in assisted reproduction 10. Prenatal and preimplantation diagnostics, genetic screening 11. Ethical issues in intensive care 12. Care of terminally ill and dying patients 13. Euthanasia, assisted suicide 14. Ethics in biomedical research
Literature
  • Blízké a vzdálené :etické teorie a principy práce s lidmi. Edited by Jan-Olav Henriksen - Arne Johan Vetlesen - Miluše Juříčková. 1. vyd. Boskovice: ALBERT, 2000, 210 s. ISBN 80-85834-85-5. info
  • GRACE, Pamela June. Nursing ethics and professional responsibility in advanced practice. 1st ed. Boston: Jones and Bartlett publishers, 2009, xvii, 428. ISBN 9780763751104. info
  • 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
  • HAŠKOVCOVÁ, Helena. Manuálek o etice (Ethics). Brno: Institut pro další vzdělání pracovníků ve zdravotnictví, 2000. ISBN 80-7013-310-4. info
Teaching methods
seminar
Assessment methods
Fulfilling requirements for credit: attendace and active participation in the seminar.
Language of instruction
Czech
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 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, autumn 2018, autumn 2019, autumn 2020, autumn 2021, autumn 2022, autumn 2023, autumn 2024.
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