Bioethics: an Advanced Course - EAVP39001

• Title: Bioethics: an Advanced Course
• Guaranteed by: Psychiatrická klinika (14-390)
• Faculty: Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: summer
• Points: 4
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/24, C [HS]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (40)
• Min. number of students: 5
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
• Guarantor: Mgr. Vojtěch Linka, Ph.D.
• Comes under: Volitelné předměty, 4. ročník AVSEOB20; Volitelné předměty, 4. ročník Všeobecné; Volitelné předměty, 5. ročník AVSEOB; Volitelné předměty, 5. ročník Všeobecné

Annotation

English

The course is open to both international and Czech students; passive knowledge of English is required. The
course aims to develop practical and theoretical competencies in bioethics, focusing on up-to-date issues in
clinical practice and medical research. The subject builds on the knowledge gained in the mandatory medical
ethics courses (third-year GM). Each session will consist of two parts: a lecture introducing the topic and a
discussion of a key text relevant to the subject. Students will develop their academic skills (close reading,
discussion, argumentative skills, etc.) and gain a broad understanding of bioethical aspects of their future clinical
and academic practice.

Last update: Křikavová Lenka, Ing. (26.03.2025)

Course completion requirements

English

A written assessment based on the lectures and key texts discussed during the seminar.

An oral discussion of the test.

Last update: Křikavová Lenka, Ing. (26.03.2025)

Literature

Arras, John, 2017, Methods in Bioethics: The Way We Reason Now, James Childress and Matthew Adams (eds.), New York: Oxford University Press

Beauchamp, Tom L. and James F. Childress, 2019a, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, eighth edition, New York: Oxford University Press.

Dunn, Michael, and R. A. Hope. 2018. Medical ethics: a very short introduction. Second edition. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

Kuhse, Helga, and Peter Singer. 2006. Bioethics: an anthology. 2nd edition. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.

Last update: Křikavová Lenka, Ing. (26.03.2025)

Syllabus

1. Introduction: The course overview, information on evaluation, etc.

2. Primum Non Nocere: Historical roots of bioethics

3. From Medical Ethics to Bioethics: 20th-century shifts and ruptures in medical theorizing

4. Biomedical Toolkit: Concepts and theories of ethical reasoning

5. Biomedical Skills: Values, virtues and the guts

6. Patients First: Bioethics in primary care

7. Society First: Bioethics and politics

8. Planet First: Global bioethics

9. Who Is a Baby Here? Abortion and infanticide

10. We Shall All Die: Bioethics and physician-assisted dying

11. Better, faster, healthier: Enhancement and the limits of medicine

12. Written Assessment

Last update: Křikavová Lenka, Ing. (26.03.2025)