Medical, veterinary anf pharmaceutical biotechnologies

Professor responsible for the course unit: BUSSOLATI Ovidio

integrated course unit

4 credits

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Course unit structured in the following modules:

Learning objectives

The student will acquire the fundamental methodological and cultural tools to face
ethical and legal issues underlying biotechnological applications and
techniques.

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Course unit content

BIOETHICS
1. Introduction. Ethics - Bioethics - Deontology. Principles and methods. 2.
Biotechnology and Bioethics. The human genome, cloning, stem cells. 3. Assisted
fertilization. 4. The human embryo. 5. Grafts from dead donors, from living donors,
from transgenic organisms. 6. Bioethics and the environment. 7. Ethics in
biomedical research. 8. Ethics and economics in human health. 9. Patent discipline:
ethical implications.
LEGISLATION
1. Fundamentals: Patents for inventions. 2. Specific topics. Chemicalpharmaceutical
inventions. Biotechnological inventions: Patent protection of
biotechnological inventions; other problems concerning biotechnological inventions
(MOGM confinement, environmental diffusion of OGM, commercialization of OGM,
food safety issues, biodiversity issues), legal discipline of novel varieties

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Bibliography

The reference material will be provided during lessons

Teaching methods

Interactive oral lessons

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral exam

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ETHICAL AND LEGISLATIVE ASPECTS OF BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS cod. 1004745

Learning objectives

Prerequisites

Course unit content

Full programme

Bibliography

Teaching methods

Assessment methods and criteria

Other information

ETHICAL AND LEGISLATIVE ASPECTS OF BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
cod. 1004745