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Medical Ethics and Humanities III. - CVSE3P0016

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. Miloš Mauer

Examination dates Schedule

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 quoted in corresponding presentation in výuka portal.

Basic Study Literature for lectures:

Aries, P., (2008) The Hour of Our Death. Vintage Books. New York.
Dorff, E.N., (2003) Matters of Life and Death. The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia.
Edge, R.S., Groves, J.R., (2006) Ethics of Health care. Thomson Delmar Reading, New York.
Lock, M., (2002) Twice Dead. Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Mepham, B., (2008) Bioethics. An Introduction for the Biosciences. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Pierce, J., Randels, G., (2010) Contemporary Bioethics. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Plomin, R., (2001) Behavioral Genetics. Worth Publishers and W.H. Freeman and Company.
Pozgar, G.D., (2005) Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals. Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
Richerson, P.J., Boyd, R., (2006) Not By Genes Alone. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London.
Singer, P.A., Viens, A.M., (2008) The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Steinbock, B., (2009) The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics. Oxford University Press. Oxford
Tauber, A.I., (2005) Patient Autonomy and the Ethics of Responsibility. The MIT 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)