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IIC - 18. Ethical Problems in Today´s Medicine (Medical Ethics) - CMCP1834
Title: IIC - 18. Etické problémy současné medicíny (lékařská etika)
Guaranteed by: Department of Medical Ethics and Humanities 3FM CU (12-UET)
Faculty: Third Faculty of Medicine
Actual: from 2016
Semester: summer
Points: 2
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/60, other [HS]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Additional information: http://www.lf3.cuni.cz/etika/index.htm
Guarantor: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D.
Classification: Medicine > Clinical Disciplines
Attributes: Modul IIC
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (01.09.2008)
The very specific problems of contemporary medical ethics are dealt with in this course, with special attention to both of ends of human life. The speciality of this course is the fact that conferences are tought by experts specialized on a different types of ethical dilemmas in medicine, from assisted reproduction to problems concerning advance directives and euthanasia. There are courses concerning not only ethics, but also economy and law. The seminars are lead likewise by the physicians from different clinics and departments, for example hematooncology, burns medicine, psychiatry etc. and general practicioners as well. We are honoured to say, that the form and content of this course is extraordinarily attractive for our medical students and highly estimated by them as well.
Aim of the course -
Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (01.09.2008)

The aim of this course is to give informations about very particular ethical dilemmas of contemporary medicine. Our medical students, as future physicians, will be met with these dilemmas in their professional careers. The ethical problems and dilemmas will be subsequently discussed in the seminars. The course is based on knowledge of the first and the second year of medical studies.

Literature -
Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (01.09.2008)

Alfred I. Tauber: Confession of a Medicine Man. The MIT Press 2000

Andrew Stark: The Limits of Medicine

George D. Pozgar: Legal and ethical issues for health Proffessionals

Oliver A.Johnson: Ethics

Chloe Baxter, Mark G.Brennan, Yvette Coldicott: The Practical Guide to Medical Ethics and Law

A.Campbell, Max Charlesworth, G.Gillett, G.Jones: Medical ethics

J.T.Aiken, H.W.C.Fuller, D.Johnson: The influence of christians in medicine

Volker Roelcke, Giovanni Maio: Twentieth Century Ethics of Human Subjects Research

Erich H.Loewy,M.D.: Textbook of healthcare ethics

Eric Casell: The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine. Oxford University Press 2003

Byron Good: Medicine, Rationality and Experience. Cambridge University Press 1993

Alfred I. Tauber: Confession of a Medicine Man. The MIT Press 2000

Viktor E. Anne Fadiman: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Dawn

Cecil G. Helman: Culture, Health and Illness

Arthur Kleinman: Writing at the Margin: Discourse between Anthropology and Medicine

Book Job (Bible)

Tom L. Beuchamp, James F. Childress: Principles of Biomedical Ethics. Oxford University Press 2001

Eric Casell: The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine. Oxford University Press 2003

Byron Good: Medicine, Rationality and Experience. Cambridge University Press 1993

Alfred I. Tauber: Patient Autonomy and the Ethics of Responsibility. The MIT Press 2005

Onnora O´Neill: Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics. Cambridge University Press 2002

Clean (a history of personal hygiene and purity): Virginia Smith,Oxford

univerzity press 2007

Teaching methods -
Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (01.09.2008)

The particular courses are tought by experts from differente specialisations. These experts point out to special ethical dilemmas concerning their work, workplace, patients and relationship physician/patient. During the seminars are particular topics subjected to further discussions.

Syllabus -
Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (17.01.2012)

There are four lectures and eight seminaries in this semester. The topics of the lectures are as follows:

1. Informed Consent. The Principle of Autonomy. Paternalism and Partnership. The Rights of the Patients, the Duty of the Physicians.

2. Death and philosophical thinking. Criteria of Death. Organ Donation for Transplantation: opting in, opting out, required request and routine salvaging.

3. Ethics and AIDS. Contemporary situation in the U.S.A., sub-saharan Africa and in the Czech rep. The switch from opting-in to opting-out.

4. Ethical Questions concerning infectious diseases and epidemiology.

 

The Topics of the seminaries are these:

1. The Human Body - shift of perception of the human body (anatomy and art). Human Body - experience of the corporeity; nakedness and deformity.

2. Pain and Suffering. The Search of Meaningness.

3. Death and Dying. Mortal Body; Images of Finality and Demise in the Art. The Search of Infiniteness.

4. The Spirituality of the Dying Patients. The Care of the Elderly Patients. Intensive Care and the End of the Human Life.

5. Hospice Movement. Palliative Care. Patient as a Bio-Psycho-Socio-Spiritual Being.

6. Advance Directives, living will, Health care proxy. DNR. Substitute decision making, Best interest. Dysthanasia. Patient in the PVS, "killing" and "letting die".

7. Communication with the Patient: truth communication, especially to the Patients with Cancer. The Trust between the Physician and the Patient. Which kind of Informations a patient can (should, must) know?

8. Medical Futility. The Shift form the Curative to the Palliative Care. Quantitative and the Qualitative Futility. The "good" of the Physician and the "good" of the Patient.

 
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