BIOETHICS
cod. 14199

Academic year 2012/13
2° year of course - First semester
Professor
Ovidio BUSSOLATI
Academic discipline
Storia della medicina (MED/02)
Field
Attività formative affini o integrative
Type of training activity
Related/supplementary
14 hours
of face-to-face activities
2 credits
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course unit
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Learning objectives

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

Prerequisites

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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.

Full programme

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Bibliography

Reference material will be provided during lessons

Teaching methods

Interactive oral lessons

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral exam

Other information

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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development

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