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84649 - Bioethics-

Academic Year 2024/2025

                
                        Docente:
                        Stefano Arieti
                    
                        Credits:
                        1
                    
                        SSD:
                        MED/02
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            First cycle degree programme (L) in
                            Neurophysiopathology techniques (cod. 8482)

                                    Course Timetable
                                
from Mar 06, 2025 to Apr 11, 2025

Learning outcomes

Knows the general concepts of deontology, ethics and professional responsibility of healthcare personnel

Course contents

GENERAL PART

Principles of medical ethics from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages
Principles of medical ethics from the early modern to the contemporary age
The birth of bioethics and the first centers of study
Principles of bioethics in monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam
Eastern religions and bioethics

SPECIAL PART

Ethical issues related to early life
Ethical issues related to the end of life

Readings/Bibliography

The teaching material will be provided by the teacher at the end of the lessons.

Useful for further information:

GENERAL PART:

A.VV. Enciclopedia di Bioetica e Scienza Giuridica, Edizioni Scientifiche, Napoli 2009-2017, voll.XII

SPECIAL PART:

R. De Franco, In nome di Ippocrate:dall'"olocausto medico"nazista all'etica della sperimentazione contemporanea, Franco Angeli editore, Milano 2001;
P.S. Colla, Per la nazione e per la razza: cittadini ed esclusi nel "modello svedese", Carocci, Roma 2000;
G. Galeotti, Storia dell'aborto, Il Mulino, Bologna 2003;
D. Atighetschi, Islam, musulmani e bioetica, Armando editore, Roma 2002;
A. Fait-M. Beyo, In principio l'uomo creò il clone, Franco Angeli, Milano 2005;
Finis vitae: la morte cerebrale è ancora vita?, a cura di R. De Mattei, Rubettino, Soveria Mannelli 2007;
F.P.De Ceglia, Storia della definizione di morte, Milano 2014

Teaching methods

Frontal teaching

Assessment methods

The level of learning will be verified at the end of the course. The exam consists in the oral discussion of a topic agreed between teacher and student. The result will be integrated with the evaluation of the other disciplines of the integrated course

Teaching tools

PC with video projection

Office hours

See the website of Stefano Arieti