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Medical Ethics and Humanities - CVSE3P0016
Title: Etika a humanitní základy medicíny
Guaranteed by: Department of Medical Ethics and Humanities 3FM CU (12-UET)
Faculty: Third Faculty of Medicine
Actual: from 2014 to 2017
Semester: summer
Points: 2
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:8/26, C [HS]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech, English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Guarantor: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D.
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
Last update: Mgr. Miloš Mauer (14.08.2017)
Main topic of seminars is principle of autonomy, topics for particular seminars are: paternalism and partnership in medicine, autonomy in the context of suffering and crisis, informed consent (very detailed, at least three seminars), responsibility of the patient for his illness (in the context of psychosomatic approach). Last two topics are focused on problematics of good and evil in man and phenomenon of slippery slope. Which circumstances lead us to evil behaviour and to slippery slope?
Aim of the course -
Last update: Mgr. Miloš Mauer (14.08.2017)

Objective of seminars is detailed knowledge of problematics of autonomy of the patient in medicine.

Literature -
Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (10.12.2019)

Literature for seminars is quoted in corresponding presentation in výuka portal.

 

 

Basic Study Literature for lectures





Aries, P., (2008) The Hour of Our Death. Vintage Books. New York.
Dorff, E.N., (2003) Matters of Life and Death. The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia.
Edge, R.S., Groves, J.R., (2006) Ethics of Health care. Thomson Delmar Reading, New York.
Lock, M., (2002) Twice Dead. Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Mepham, B., (2008) Bioethics. An Introduction for the Biosciences. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Pierce, J., Randels, G., (2010) Contemporary Bioethics. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Plomin, R., (2001) Behavioral Genetics. Worth Publishers and W.H. Freeman and Company.
Pozgar, G.D., (2005) Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals. Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
Richerson, P.J., Boyd, R., (2006) Not By Genes Alone. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London.
Singer, P.A., Viens, A.M., (2008) The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Steinbock, B., (2009) The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics. Oxford University Press. Oxford
Tauber, A.I., (2005) Patient Autonomy and the Ethics of Responsibility. The MIT Press, Cambridge.

Teaching methods -
Last update: Mgr. Miloš Mauer (14.08.2017)

Lectures and seminaries.

Particular topis are explained in detail in seminars, with time reserve for deeper discussion.

 

 

 

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: Mgr. Miloš Mauer (14.08.2017)

Medical Ethics

summer 2012

questions

3rd year

 

 The course is finished by written credit test, based on multiple choice principle.

 Student must attend at least 5 seminars (total number is 8) to be able to go to the  credit test.

 

 

 

Syllabus -
Last update: Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Vácha, Ph.D. (04.12.2019)

There are five lectures and seven seminaries in 3rd year. The topics of the lectures are as follows:

 

1. Advance Directives. Liwing will. DNR. Healt Care Proxy.


2. Human Genome Project - Ethical Issues.

3. Gene Therapy.

4. Gene-Ethics and Synt-Ethics.

5. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science.

 

Seminar topics (Miloš Mauer) are:

Paternalism and partnership

Autonomy in the context of suffering, illness and search for meaning

Autonomy and responsibility. Ethical aspects of psychosomatic approach

Informed consent I: introduction

Informed consent II: placebo, autpsy, organ donation, Jehova´s witnesses

Informed consent III: autonomy and suicidal behaviour, confidentiality, SPIKES model, kazuistry

Problematics of slippery slope (good and evil in man I)

Lucifer effect (good and evil in man II)

 

 

 

 

 

Entry requirements -
Last update: Mgr. Miloš Mauer (14.08.2017)

The lectures and seminaries stem from lectures of the 1st and 2nd year, especially the introductory lectures of the 1st year.

 
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