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Medical Ethics and Humanities III. - C3VL007

Title:	Etika a humanitní základy medicíny III.
Guaranteed by:	Department of Medical Ethics and Humanities 3FM CU (12-UET)
Faculty:	Third Faculty of Medicine
Actual:	from 2024
Semester:	summer
Points:	2
E-Credits:	2
Examination process:	summer s.:
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:8/26, C [HS]
Capacity:	unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
Key competences:
State of the course:	taught
Language:	Czech, English
Teaching methods:	full-time
Level:

Guarantor:	Mgr. Barbora Řebíková, Ph.D. Mgr. Miloš Mauer

Examination dates Schedule

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	Paternalism-v-Autonomy.pdf	Text_Paternalism_v_Autonomy	doc. PhDr. Zuzana Svobodová, Ph.D.
	Worksheet_12-5-25.docx	Worksheet 12-5-25	doc. PhDr. Zuzana Svobodová, Ph.D.

Annotation -

Lectures: ethics of genetics, seminars: principle of autonomy, basic theories of moral decision making and moral acting

Last update: Mauer Miloš, Mgr. (13.09.2024)

Aim of the course -

Objective of seminars is detailed knowledge of problematics of autonomy of the patient in medicine.

Last update: Mauer Miloš, Mgr. (14.08.2017)

Literature -

Literature for seminars is within each presentation in Vyuka portal.

Basic Study Literature for lectures:

Baylis, F., (2019) Altered Inheritance. CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing. Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Berliner, J.L., (ed.) (2015) Ethical Dilemmas in Genetics and Genetic Counseling. Principles through Case Scenarios. Oxford University Press. Oxford.

Mepham, B., (2008) Bioethics. An Introduction for the Biosciences. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Pierce, J., Randels, G., (2010) Contemporary Bioethics. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Singer, P.A., Viens, A.M., (2008) The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Last update: Mauer Miloš, Mgr. (13.09.2024)

Teaching methods -

Lectures and seminaries.

Particular topis are explained in detail in seminars, with time reserve for deeper discussion.

Last update: Mauer Miloš, Mgr. (14.08.2017)

Requirements to the exam -

The course is finished by written credit test, based on multiple choice principle.

Student must attend at least 5 seminars (total number is 8) to be able to go to the credit test.

Last update: Mauer Miloš, Mgr. (13.09.2024)

Syllabus -

There are four lectures and eight seminars in 3rd year. The topics of the lectures are as follows:

1. Human Genome Project I. History and Biology

2. Human Genome Project II. Law and Ethics

3. Genomic Revolution. A. Jolie. Patenting of Human Genes. Gen-ethics and synt-ethics.

4. Gen-ethics. Ethics of Genetics.

Seminar topics (Miloš Mauer) are:

1. Paternalism and partnership

2. Informed consent I: introduction

3. Informed consent II: confidentiality, placebo and nocebo phenomena

4. Informed consent III: human body, transplantations, autopsy

5. Autonomy in the context of suffering, illness and search for meaning

6. Autonomy and responsibility. Ethical aspects of psychosomatic approach

7. Problematics of slippery slope (good and evil in man I, moral reasoning and acting)

8. Lucifer effect (good and evil in man II, moral reasoning and acting)

Last update: Mauer Miloš, Mgr. (13.09.2024)

Entry requirements -

The lectures and seminaries stem from lectures of the 1st and 2nd year, especially the introductory lectures of the 1st year.

Last update: Mauer Miloš, Mgr. (14.08.2017)