Bioethics and psychology IV. - DA1105461

• Title: Bioethics and psychology IV.
• Guaranteed by: Department of Medical Ethics and Humanities (13-711)
• Faculty: Second Faculty of Medicine
• Actual: from 2023 to 2023
• Semester: winter
• Points: 3
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/28, C+Ex [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 14 [weeks]
• Capacity: unknown / unlimited (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: Mgr. et Mgr. Martin Zielina, Ph.D.
• Pre-requisite : DA1104363

Annotation

Last update: JUDr. Adam Doležal, LL.M., Ph.D. (08.10.2023)

It is a compulsory study subject that develops the basic knowledge of bioethics acquired in the previous lower years of study. It is to develop ethical knowledge and critical thinking skills. The study is aimed at improving medical-ethical erudition, i.e. it should improve some basic competencies with which professional ethics in contemporary medicine is connected. In particular, it concerns knowledge and skills in the field of bioethics - the teaching therefore deals with the dominant theories in contemporary bioethics, which are principlism (using four basic principles and the ability to balance between these principles), casuistry with a focus on paradigmatic case studies, and a method focused on particular medical-ethical institutes and rules (informed consent, negative reverse, previously expressed wish, etc.). Furthermore, the subject focuses on effective ethical communication between doctor and patient, while appealing to the partnership model of shared decision-making. The subject also works with the so-called narrative approach to bioethics, which should deepen the compassion and empathy of future doctors. Both of the mentioned components should be intended against the possible depersonalization and dehumanization of medicine, which can occur thanks to modern technologies.

Aim of the course

Last update: JUDr. Adam Doležal, LL.M., Ph.D. (08.10.2023)

The main goal of the course is for medical students to enter medical practice sufficiently prepared for the new ethical challenges that modern medicine brings. The subject should help increase the moral competence of medics and improve the ability to navigate in ethically questionable cases. They should familiarize themselves with the most important topics of bioethics, understand the basic concepts in bioethics and get a basic orientation in ethically questionable case studies.

Course completion requirements

Last update: JUDr. Adam Doležal, LL.M., Ph.D. (08.10.2023)

Attendance at classes (1 permitted absence, in case of 2 absences a substitute essay on a topic from the missed lesson).

The exam is preceded by credit – it is necessary to prepare a processed case report and send it at least 10 days before the date of its defense.

For successful completion, it is necessary to get at least 70% in the final written test.

Literature

Last update: JUDr. Adam Doležal, LL.M., Ph.D. (08.10.2023)

AYERS, Susan - Richard DE VISSER. Psychologie v medicíně. Praha: Grada, 2015. Psyché. ISBN 978-80-247-5230-3.

BEAUCHAMP, Tom L. - James Franklin CHILDRESS. Principles of biomedical ethics. Seventh edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-19-992458-5.

DWORKIN, Gerald. The theory and practice of autonomy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN 05-213-5767-5.

FADEN, Ruth R. – BEAUCHAMP, Tom L. A history and theory of informed consent. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986, xv, ISBN 01-950-3686-7.

FLETCHER, Joseph F. Morals and medicine: the moral problems of the patient’s right to know the truth, contraception, artificial insemination,sterilization, euthanasia. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1979. ISBN 06-910-2004-3.

JONSEN, Albert R. – SIEGLER, Mark – WINSLADE, William J. Clinical Ethics. A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1982. ISBN 978-0071845069.

JONSEN, Albert R. – TOULMIN, Stephen. The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988, ISBN 978-0520069602.

KATZ, Jay. The silent world of doctor and patient. Johns Hopkins Paperbacks ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, xlviii. ISBN 08-018-5780-5.

KUHSE, Helga - Peter SINGER. A companion to bioethics. 2nd ed. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, c2009. Blackwell companions to philosophy. ISBN 978-1-4051-6331-6.

PENCE, Gregory E. Classic cases in medical ethics: accounts of cases that have shaped medical ethics, with philosophical, legal, and historical backgrounds. 4th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill, ©2004. xviii, 470 s. ISBN 0-07-282935-4.

VAUGHN, Lewis. Bioethics: principles, issues, and cases. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. x, 686 s. ISBN 978-0-19-518282-8.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: JUDr. Adam Doležal, LL.M., Ph.D. (08.10.2023)

For successful completion, it is necessary to get at least 70% in the final written test.

Syllabus

Last update: JUDr. Adam Doležal, LL.M., Ph.D. (08.10.2023)

Bioethics. Principlism and Casuistry

Vaccination. Ethical aspects

Communication in Medicine

Justice in Medcine

End-of-Life Decisions

Doctor Patient´s relationship – shared decision making

Research Ethics