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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 2016
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
Teaching methods:	full-time
Level:

Guarantor:	Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D.

Examination dates Schedule

Annotation -

Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (03.10.2016)

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.

Aim of the course -

Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (03.10.2016)

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

Course completion requirements -

Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (03.10.2016)

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.

Literature -

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

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.

Teaching methods -

Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (03.10.2016)

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

Requirements to the exam -

Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (03.10.2016)

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

Syllabus -

Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (03.10.2016)

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".

Learning resources -

Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (03.10.2016)

PowerPoint presentations in the web page

vyuka.lf3.cuni.cz

Entry requirements -

Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (03.10.2016)

Knowledge of the 1st lectures and seminaries

Course completion requirements -

Last update: Bc. Kateřina Maternová (03.10.2016)

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.