SCIENZE UMANE - channel 4

6 CFU - 2° Semester

Teaching Staff

ANTONIO VESCO - Module PRINCIPI DI DEMOETNOANTROPOLOGIA - M-DEA/01 - 2 CFU
MARTINO RUGGIERI - Module STORIA DELLA MEDICINA - MED/02 - 2 CFU
AGOSTINO PALMERI - Module Bioethics - MED/02 - 2 CFU

Learning Objectives

Bioethics
Within the integrated course of Human Sciences of the degree course in Medicine and Surgery, the teaching of Medical Bioethics is intended to modulate, regulate and optimize the relationship between medical sciences and clinical practice according to a vision that begins with the scientific data and arrivals to regulatory aspects, in the light of the code of ethics as well as forecasts of the current constitutional and legal (general and special) precepts.

Course Structure

Bioethics
Frontal lessons.

Detailed Course Content

Bioethics
General Bioethics:
- Definition and methodology of Bioethics
- The ethics and country law
- The Hippocratic Oath
- The medical code of ethics
- General tasks and duties of the doctor: independence and dignity of the profession
- Protection of confidentiality: professional secret
- Relationship with the patient: general rules of conduct
- Medical Act, authority to do it, information to the patient and consent of the patient to treatment
Clinical Bioethics:
- Medical records: data protection
- Refusal of treatment
- Bioethics of beginning and end of life: the concept of brain death and organ transplants; euthanasia
- Abortion; assisted reproduction
- Therapeutic obstinacy
- Living will
- Hydration and artificial feeding: permanent vegetative state
- Human genetics and eugenics
- Stem cells and reproductive technologies
- Research on humans and non-humans
- Bioethics, sport and doping
- Non-conventional Medicine
- Bioethics centers and ethics Committees
- Ethical aspects of the protection of personality (transsexualism)
Ethical aspects of the experimentation

Textbook Information

Bioethics
- Cattorini Paolo - BIOETICA. Metodo ed elementi di base per affrontare problemi clinici. 4/ed. ELSEVIER Masson Italia, 2011 (ISBN/EAN: 9788821427824)
- Russo Giovanni - BIOETICA MEDICA. Per medici e professionisti della sanità. Coop. S.Tom.- Elle Di Ci, Messina-Leumann (TO), 2009, 1° ed. (LDC010532-01 ISBN: 9788801042436)

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