BIOETHICS
3rd year (81100)


(winter semestr, seminars)


The students become acquainted with updated information concerning the present state of bioethics as it is the relationship between doctor and patient, patient's rights, informed consent, experimentation on human beings, meaning of anxiety and fear, pain and suffering, resources allocation yet also some understanding of general concepts and conceptions in ethics belongs to the basic equipment of any dentist. Students will be offered an opportunity to cultivate their capability to distinguish ethical topics from non-ethical ones as well as to approach the motivational background of human conduct. These skills will be applied in autonomous approach to the ethical conflicts and other problems of medical practice.


  • Location: U Nemocnice 3, small hall 2 (ANATP2).
  • Time: on Tuesdays from 11:00 to 12:30.
    Group 1,2,3 - odd weeks,group 4,5,6 - even weeks.
  • For reaching the credit: a study of given literature and preparation up to the questions is needed
  • First lecture: 10th October 2023 - group 1,2,3, and 3th October 2023 - group 4,5,6.

    • The program:

    week:
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    5.
    6.
    7.     		theme:
    Philosophical ethics
    Human dignity
    Conflict of interpretation
    Categories of medical ethics and medical codes
    Ethics of medical research and research in general
    Ethics of transplantation, cloning, gene therapy.
    System of health care and ethics of scarce resources allocation       		lecturer:
    Payne
    Payne
    Payne
    Payne
    Payne
    Payne
    Payne

    Compulsory literature:

    Beauchamp T. L., Childress J. F.; Principles of Biomedical Ethics; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001 (5. edition)
    Thomasma D. C., Kushner T.; From Birth to Death; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996

    Recommanded literature:

    Blackburn S; Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy; Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996 (2nd edition)
    Flew A.; A Dictionary of Philosophy; Macmillan Press, London, 1979
    Loewy E.; Textbook of Medical Ethics; Plenum Medical Book, New York London, 1989
    Loewy E.; Textbook of Healthcare Ethics; Plenum Press, New York London, 1996
    Russell B.; History of Western Philosophy; Georg Allen, London, 1965 (9th edition)
    Veatch R. M. (ed.); Medical Ethics; James Bartletts, Boston, 1989
    Wulf H. R., Pedersen S. A., Rosenberg R.; Philosophy of Medicine; Blackwell, London, 1986

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