BIOETHICS
Stomatology - 2nd year (83116)

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

(summer semester, lectures)


The students of general medicine acquire in the course a survay concerning main categories of bioethics and crucial dilemmas of medical decision making. It encompasses basic categories of medical ethics, health and moral competence, conception of health care and scarce resources allocation as well as the doctor patient relationship.



  • Location: Charles square 40, Faustus house, no. 20, 2nd floor
  • Time: Friday 2:15pm - 4:00pm, even weeks. First lecture: 1st March 2024.
  • For reaching the credit: study of given literature and preparation up to the questions is needed. The dentists will be examined by the test at the end of the course while the non-successful ones will pass an oral examination.
    Common rules for performance of examination.
    Questions available here.


The program:

week:  lecturer:    theme:
  1.      Payne     Bioethics and philosophy of medicine
  2.      Payne     Human dignity, codes, basic categories of bioethics
  3.      Payne     Three kinds of interpretation; application in medicine, crisis and pain
  4.      Payne     Frontal lobes, normality, quality of life and health
  5.      Payne     Experimentation on human beings & allocation of scarcere sources
  6.      Payne     Credit

Questions (general course)

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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