Human Rights and Medicine - CVOL0076

• Title: Human Rights and Medicine
• Guaranteed by: Department of Medical Ethics and Humanities 3FM CU (12-UET)
• Faculty: Third Faculty of Medicine
• Actual: from 2024 to 2024
• Semester: summer
• Points: 3
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/15, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (8)
• Min. number of students: 4
• 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; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Zuzana Svobodová, Ph.D.
• Comes under: AVSEOB-VP-2 (ZÁPIS); AVSEOB-VP-3 (ZÁPIS); AVSEOB-VP-4 (ZÁPIS); AVSEOB-VP-5 (ZÁPIS); AVSEOB-VP-6 (ZÁPIS); AVSEOB1-VP-1 (ZÁPIS); AVSEOB1-VP-2 (ZÁPIS); AVSEOB1-VP-3 (ZÁPIS); AVSEOB1-VP-4 (ZÁPIS); AVSEOB1-VP-5 (ZÁPIS); AVSEOB1-VP-6 (ZÁPIS)

Annotation

Course Description: The history of human rights / The arguments that relate to rights / Human rights and medicine.

Last update: Svobodová Zuzana, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (26.10.2019)

Aim of the course

Course Objectives:

•To introduce to the history of human rights.

•To introduce to some of the philosophical and theological arguments.

•To articulate the roots of human rights.

Last update: Svobodová Zuzana, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (26.10.2019)

Course completion requirements

Requirements:

Project presentation in class with minimum 10 and maximum 20 slides

theme: Human rights and medicine

–Human rights inclusion in medicine

–Origins of human rights, fundamental sources

–The main issues of human rights, fundamental concepts

–The development of human rights theory

–Basic human rights documents

–Relevant human rights issues and their solutions

 

min. 2 days before day of presentation to send it on e-mail: [e-mail]

Last update: Svobodová Zuzana, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (26.10.2019)

Literature

About dignity: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC300789/citedby/

B. Schaefer: Foundations of HR

Bioethics and Human Dignity: http://www3.nd.edu/~undpress/excerpts/P01307-ex.pdf

Disability

Gender

HR_Justifications

http://bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6939-7-2

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/cloning/clone

http://worldabortionlaws.com/map/

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/bioethics/

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/bioethics/ethics-education-programme/

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/bioethics/human-genome-and-human-rights/

http://www.wma.net/en/20activities/10ethics/index.html

http://www.wma.net/en/20activities/20humanrights/index.html

 http://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/d2/index.html

http://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/o3/

https://abortion.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=003721#34

https://ec.europa.eu/food/animals/welfare/other_aspects/cloning_en

https://www.amnesty.org/en/

https://www.hrw.org/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC300789/pdf/32701419.pdf

https://www.reproductiverights.org/sites/crr.civicactions.net/files/documents/crr_AbortionLaws_SexualViolence_8.12.13.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFtSFMELcT4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmBSIQ1lkOA

https://youtu.be/_6YNIXPGXKo

https://youtu.be/PFHg3jjjsEM

https://youtu.be/sPVWmmVKVk0

https://youtu.be/VT5nsIAyCuI

Human Dignity and Bioethics: http://www.thenewatlantis.com/docLib/20091130_human_dignity.pdf

I. Wilmut, A. E. Schnieke, J. McWhir, A. J. Kind & K. H. S. Campbell Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells Nature volume 385, pages 810–813 (27 February 1997)

Islamic Bioethics: https://youtu.be/HnweBU8UOOE

M. Macdonald: Natural Rights

M. Poovery: Abortion and Death

Mohanti, Bidhu K. “Ethics in Palliative Care.” Indian Journal of Palliative Care 15.2 (2009): 89–92. PMC. Web. 17 Feb. 2017.

Peel, Michael. “Human Rights and Medical Ethics.” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 98.4 (2005): 171–173. Print.

Physicians for Human Rights: A Snapshot of Our Work Around the World: https://youtu.be/aKallbyio8Q

Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research: People & Perspectives: George Annas - Human Rights: https://youtu.be/0L2NVFcYqkM

R. A. Primus: Rights Theory and Practice

R. Rorty: On Human Rights

Reproductive Rights

Sexual Health

Sexual Orientation

Sharma, Himanshu et al. “End-of-Life Care: Indian Perspective.” Indian Journal of Psychiatry 55.Suppl 2 (2013): S293–S298. PMC. Web. 17 Feb. 2017.

T. Machula: Natural Law

United Nations_HR

Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. 19 October 2005: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001428/142825e.pdf#page=80

Hayden, J. M. (2024). Leadership and the ethics of hope: Václav Havel and the Charter 77 human rights movement in Czechoslovakia. Leadership, 20(5), 314-333. https://doi.org/10.1177/17427150241256160

Last update: Svobodová Zuzana, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (18.10.2024)

Teaching methods

Only in the case of a pandemic situation, the subject Human Rights and Medicine is taught online on MS Teams:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3abeb7bba82c744b03b5559593bc8a7dee%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=5388d111-c323-4722-aefd-1fd85e68a648&tenantId=e09276da-f934-4086-bf08-8816a20414a2

Last update: Svobodová Zuzana, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (23.02.2023)

Syllabus

Schedules:

1. Human rights inclusion in medicine
2. Origins of human rights, fundamental sources
3. The main issues of human rights, fundamental concepts
4. The development of human rights theory
5. Basic human rights documents
6. Relevant human rights issues and their solutions

Last update: Svobodová Zuzana, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (26.10.2019)

Learning resources

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ISDeV3kl22ANyrstGw_NoIkmLNlF0FIYmik5ccLSUYw/edit?usp=sharing

Last update: Svobodová Zuzana, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (11.01.2021)