07654 - Bioethics

Academic Year 2015/2016

  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Neurophysiopathology techniques (cod. 8482)

Course contents

Introduction to bioethics. Principialism. Confidentiality. Utilitarism. Deontological ethics. Truth telling.  Personalism. Virtue Ethics. Care ethics. Brain death. Organ donation and transplantation. The anencephalic stillborn.

Readings/Bibliography

Cattorini: Bioetica, Elsevier, Milano, 2011. CNB statements.

Educational materials will be provided during the course, and updated presentations will be also available at AMS Campus.

Teaching methods

Lectures and discussion.

Assessment methods

Composition.

Teaching tools

Powerpoint.

Links to further information

http://www.governo.it/bioetica/

Office hours

See the website of Francesca Ingravallo