Philosophy of Nursing - CNSKFZ1
Title: Filosofické základy ošetřovatelství
Guaranteed by: Department of Medical Ethics and Humanities 3FM CU (12-UET)
Faculty: Third Faculty of Medicine
Actual: from 2020
Semester: winter
Points: 2
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/10, C [HS]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: combined
Level:  
Guarantor: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D.
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
The course introduces to the main ethical theories (hedonism, utilitarismus, empiricism, deontology, moral values etc.), with special emphasis on ethics in nursing. In the field of medical ethics, attention is drawn to the four principles of medical ethics, in particular the principle of autonomy. The students will become more familiar with the application of these ethical theories in selected dilemmas of current medical ethics (the disclosure of truth, informed consent, both ends of human life etc.). The course will also inform about major medical conventions and agreements in force, both in the world and in Czech Republic.
Last update: Vácha Marek, Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (24.09.2008)
Aim of the course -

The essential aim of this course is to transmit the most basic overview of current developments in medical ethics, (1) in terms of different philosophical approaches of different thinkers and schools, and (2) the application of these approaches to selected ethical dilemmas of medical ethics. In addition to these more philosophical themes of the course, the aim is to acquaint students with (3) the most important conventions and codes of modern medical ethics. The aim of the course, given a very limited time and space, is to give inspiration and impetus for further private study.

Last update: Vácha Marek, Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (24.09.2008)
Literature -

Alfred I. Tauber: Confession of a Medicine Man. The MIT Press 2000

Andrew Stark: The Limits of Medicine

George D. Pozgar: Legal and ethical issues for health Proffessionals

Oliver A.Johnson: Ethics

Chloe Baxter, Mark G.Brennan, Yvette Coldicott: The Practical Guide to Medical Ethics and Law

A.Campbell, Max Charlesworth, G.Gillett, G.Jones: Medical ethics

J.T.Aiken, H.W.C.Fuller, D.Johnson: The influence of christians in medicine

Volker Roelcke, Giovanni Maio: Twentieth Century Ethics of Human Subjects Research

Erich H.Loewy,M.D.: Textbook of healthcare ethics

Eric Casell: The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine. Oxford University Press 2003

Byron Good: Medicine, Rationality and Experience. Cambridge University Press 1993

Alfred I. Tauber: Confession of a Medicine Man. The MIT Press 2000

Viktor E. Anne Fadiman: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Dawn

Cecil G. Helman: Culture, Health and Illness

Arthur Kleinman: Writing at the Margin: Discourse between Anthropology and Medicine

Book Job (Bible)

Tom L. Beuchamp, James F. Childress: Principles of Biomedical Ethics. Oxford University Press 2001

Eric Casell: The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine. Oxford University Press 2003

Byron Good: Medicine, Rationality and Experience. Cambridge University Press 1993

Alfred I. Tauber: Patient Autonomy and the Ethics of Responsibility. The MIT Press 2005

Onnora O´Neill: Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics. Cambridge University Press 2002

Clean (a history of personal hygiene and purity): Virginia Smith,Oxford

univerzity press 2007

Aldous Huxley: Brave New World

Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go

Other Sources:

http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/

http://www.mrc.ac.uk/index.htm

http://www.bioethics.org

http://www.bioethics.ac.uk/

Last update: Vácha Marek, Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (24.09.2008)
Teaching methods -

Given the limited time, the course will focus on lectures, using both, projections and video. Discussion takes place on a few carefully chosen cases. The advantage is that the listeners have already a wide experience of hospital environment. The experience of last years has thought us that students themselves bring from their work extremely interesting cases, and the joint search for a solution will combin theoretical knowledge with the practice.

Last update: Vácha Marek, Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (24.09.2008)
Syllabus -
  • Basic concepts: ethics, bioethics, medical ethics, ethics in health care
  • Ethical theory: hedonism, utilitarismus, Kant and deontology, moral values, ethics virtues
  • Man as being a person: an empirical functionalism and ontological personalism
  • The four principles of medical ethics: beneficence, Nonmaleficence, autonomy, justice
  • The principle of double effect
  • Conscience
  • The beginning of human life: assisted reproduction, embryonic stem cells, therapeutic and reproductive cloning
  • End of human life: death and dying, the definition and criteria of death, removal of organs from the dead, advance directives, living will, DNR
  • Euthanasia, assisted suicide. Letting die.
  • The question of legalizing euthanasia in the Czech Republic
  • Hippocratic Oath and hippocraticum corpus. The Geneva Declaration. Nuremberg Code. Helsinki Convention. The Lisbon Declaration. The Convention on Human Rights and the Council of Europe.
  • Code of Ethics of the Czech Medical Chamber.

Last update: Vácha Marek, Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (24.09.2008)