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.
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.
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
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