BIOETHICS
4th year (80629)

(the principal teacher of the subject - doc. MUDr. PhDr. Jan Payne, PhD.)

The students of general medicine acquire in the course a survey concerning main categories of bioethics and crucial dilemmas of medical decision making. It encompasses basic categories of medical ethics, dilemmas at the beginning and end of life, health and moral competence, conception of health care and scarce resources allocation, experimentation on humans and conundrums associated with transplantations.


    NEMPOP1- 3,4 KBLDP2 -1,2 Na Bojišti 1, P2, budova P1 (BV11) Kateřinská 32, přízemí, posl. 1.089.
  • Location: Na Bojišti 1, Prague 2, building P1 (BV11)(NEMPOP1)
  • Time: since Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 12:45. Teaching starts on Monday 2nd October 2023 (A1), on Monday 9th October 2023 (A3), on Monday 16th October 2023 (A2) and on Monday 30th October 2023 (A4) and will take one week always in the same place and time.
    In case of distant education because of pandemic situation see please MS Teams: Bioethics 2 20/21 B81100.
  • For reaching the credit: full presence on the stages, a study of given literature and preparation up to the questions is needed. The classified credit will be awarded after the oral examination either the next week after the course for 12 students or any other week during the academic year for other students always in number up to 3 while the exact day will be appointed on the SIS beforehand. The registration on the SIS is due.
    Common rules for performance of examination.
  • Exam questions

The program is as follows:

Monday
Tuesday
Wensday
Thursday
Friday

Ethical questions of the beginning of life
Neuroethics and ethics in psychiatry, problem of health
Ethical questions regarding chronic ailment
Euthanasia and definition of death
Thanatology

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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