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Medical Ethics and Humanities II. - CERA2P0032

Title:	ERASMUS - Medical Ethics and Humanities II.
Guaranteed by:	Department of Medical Ethics and Humanities 3FM CU (12-UET)
Faculty:	Third Faculty of Medicine
Actual:	from 2024
Semester:	winter
Points:	1
E-Credits:	1
Examination process:	winter s.:
Hours per week, examination:	winter s.:8/4, C(+Ex) [HS]
Capacity:	unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
Key competences:
State of the course:	taught
Language:	English
Teaching methods:	full-time
Level:

Guarantor:	Mgr. Barbora Řebíková, Ph.D.

Examination dates Schedule

Annotation -

There are four lectures and two seminaries in this semester. All the lectures and seminaries are focused to the problem of the beginning of the human life.

Last update: Maternová Kateřina, Bc. (03.10.2016)

Aim of the course -

The aim of lectures and seminaries is:

1. Biological knowledge concerning beginning of the human life, elementary knowledge of embryology

2. Elementary knowledge of embryo technologies

3. Elementary knowledge of Embryo Ethics, kowledge of all argimnets for and against, all pros and cons

Last update: Maternová Kateřina, Bc. (03.10.2016)

Course completion requirements -

School subject is finished by the credit. The credit is going to be realized by the written examination, partially by multiple choices, partially by filling in some words, sentences etc.

Last update: Maternová Kateřina, Bc. (03.10.2016)

Literature -

Gilbert, S., Tyler, A.S., Zackin, E., (2005) Bioethics and New Embryology. WH Freeman and Sinauer Associates

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

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

Last update: Vácha Marek, Mgr. et Mgr., Ph.D. (11.12.2019)

Teaching methods -

Lectures with the usual help of multimedial devices, seminaries focused more in the discussions, articulations of opinions, ideas based on the case reports, etc.

Last update: Maternová Kateřina, Bc. (03.10.2016)

Requirements to the exam -

Knowledge of the biology of the beginning of the human embryo, knowledge of elementary technologies and especially knowledge of the basic arguments for and against particular kinds of technologies

Last update: Maternová Kateřina, Bc. (03.10.2016)

Syllabus -

Lectures:

1. Reproductive and Therapeutic Cloning

2. Assisted Reproduction I. History and Biology. From 1978 till 2012. Ovum and sperm donation.

3. Assisted Reproduction II. Laws and Ethics.

4. Embryonic Stem Cells. From 1998 till 2012

Seminaries:

1. Status of the Human Embryo

2. Human Embryo and the Four Principles of Medical Ethics. Right to the "Open Future".

Last update: Maternová Kateřina, Bc. (03.10.2016)

Learning resources -

PowerPoint presentations in the web page

vyuka.lf3.cuni.cz

Last update: Maternová Kateřina, Bc. (03.10.2016)

Entry requirements -

Knowledge of the 1st lectures and seminaries

Last update: Maternová Kateřina, Bc. (03.10.2016)