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Medical Ethics - CHSET2
Title: Lékařská etika
Guaranteed by: Department of Medical Ethics and Humanities 3FM CU (12-UET)
Faculty: Third Faculty of Medicine
Actual: from 2016
Semester: winter
Points: 6
E-Credits: 6
Examination process: winter s.:
summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/10, C [HS]
summer s.:0/10, C+Ex [HS]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown)
summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Additional information: http://www.lf3.cuni.cz/etika/index.htm
Guarantor: Mgr. Jiří Prokop, Ph.D.
Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D.
Classification: Health Care > Basic Sciences
Is co-requisite for: CHSNC3, CHSNP3, CHSNV3, CHSND3, CHSNG3, CHSNT3
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (24.09.2008)
Methods of moral reflections, the principle of respect for patient autonomy, ethical aspects of oncology care, euthanasia, patients' rights, ethical aspects of assisted reproduction, genetic counseling, the economy in health care.
Aim of the course -
Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (24.09.2008)

The aim of the course is to orient students within the issues of modern medical ethics. It shall happen in three steps: (1) to transmit them the fundamental ethical theories; (2) application of these theories to selected areas of current problems or to particular cases; (3) to make students familiar with the legislative framework and relevant codes and regulations.

Literature -
Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (24.09.2008)

Alfred I. Tauber: Confession of a Medicine Man. The MIT Press 2000

Andrew Stark: The Limits of Medicine

George D. Pozgar: Legal and ethical issues for health Proffessionals

Oliver A.Johnson: Ethics

Chloe Baxter, Mark G.Brennan, Yvette Coldicott: The Practical Guide to Medical Ethics and Law

A.Campbell, Max Charlesworth, G.Gillett, G.Jones: Medical ethics

J.T.Aiken, H.W.C.Fuller, D.Johnson: The influence of christians in medicine

Volker Roelcke, Giovanni Maio: Twentieth Century Ethics of Human Subjects Research

Erich H.Loewy,M.D.: Textbook of healthcare ethics

Eric Casell: The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine. Oxford University Press 2003

Byron Good: Medicine, Rationality and Experience. Cambridge University Press 1993

Alfred I. Tauber: Confession of a Medicine Man. The MIT Press 2000

Viktor E. Anne Fadiman: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Dawn

Cecil G. Helman: Culture, Health and Illness

Arthur Kleinman: Writing at the Margin: Discourse between Anthropology and Medicine

Book Job (Bible)

Tom L. Beuchamp, James F. Childress: Principles of Biomedical Ethics. Oxford University Press 2001

Eric Casell: The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine. Oxford University Press 2003

Byron Good: Medicine, Rationality and Experience. Cambridge University Press 1993

Alfred I. Tauber: Patient Autonomy and the Ethics of Responsibility. The MIT Press 2005

Onnora O´Neill: Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics. Cambridge University Press 2002

Clean (a history of personal hygiene and purity): Virginia Smith,Oxford

univerzity press 2007

Aldous Huxley: Brave New World

Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go

Other Sources:

http://www.nuffieldbioethics.org

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/

http://www.mrc.ac.uk/index.htm

http://www.bioethics.org

http://www.bioethics.ac.uk/

Teaching methods -
Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (24.09.2008)

Lectures, training the argumentations pro and contra within the model situations, an analysis of each case using descriptive and normative ethics. Check for strong and weak points in the most important ethical codes and declarations today.

Syllabus -
Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (24.09.2008)

1. Ethical theory

2. Modern ethical theory

3. Ontological personalismus and empirical functionalism

4. Reproductive and therapeutic cloning, the status of embryos

5. Death. Collecting bodies of the dead. (opting out, opting in)

6. Research on human subjects

7. Nuremberg Code. Helsinki Declaration

8. Human genome: ethical aspects of the sequencing

9. The Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine

 
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