BIOETHICS AND BIOLAW

IUS/20 - 7 CFU - 2° Semester

Teaching Staff

SALVATORE AMATO


Learning Objectives

Knowledge and comprehension

The matter of the course is the analysis of the juridical regulation on biomedical trends, resulting from scientific and technological progress. Particularly the course considers the connection between law and new converging technologies (synthetic biology, biometrics, neuroscience, human enhancement), the status of the human embryo, the status of the human body, the clinical trial, the end-of-life questions.

Ability to turn knowledge and comprehension into practice

The aim of the course is:

a) to test the ethical and legal implications of different bioethical problems

b) to identify and to know the main differing points of view which appear in the bioethical debate

c) to prepare for developing coherent and comprehensive arguments in the resolution of ethical problems.


Course Structure

Frontal classes (teachings) supported by slides. Exercises on the most significant bioethical cases based on the vision and discussion of some films.

Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.



Detailed Course Content

What is biolaw?

Ethical pluralism and neutral approaches

Law and science

Personal, Narrative, Social and Managerial identities

Law and Body

Reproduction technologies

Reproductive and therapeutic cloning

Physical assisted suicide and euthanasia

Quantified Self

Neuroethics

Artificial Intelligence



Textbook Information

Books for students who attend the lectures:

S. AMATO, Biodiritto 4.0. Intelligenza artificiale e nuove tecnologie, Torino, Giappichelli, 2020 (Chapters indicated in class)

Books for students who don’t attend the lectures

b) S. AMATO, Eutanasie, Il diritto di fronte alla fine della vita, Torino, Giappichelli, 2015,(Except Introduction and ch. 1, 2. 9) p. 170.

d) F. D’AGOSTINO, Bioetica Questioni di confine,Roma, Studium, 2019, pp. 219.

After the issuing of the Law 2017/ 219 students must replace the last chapter of the book Eutanasie with the study of follow-up attached Law and judgment




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