- Docente: Marina Lalatta Costerbosa
- Credits: 12
- SSD: IUS/20
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Philosophy (cod. 0957)
Learning outcomes
Basic knowledges, specific methodologies and critical abilities with regard to the most relevant bioethical issues.
Course contents
Problems and Arguments on Bioethics
The Course deals with those fundamental concepts and moral arguments which play a crucial role in the bioethical debate.
The Cours focuses on the area of knowledge created by the overlapping interest of three different spheres of competence: technology, medicine, and ethics. In particular it deals with ethical questions related to birth rate (like abortion, cloning, prenatal diagnostics etc.) and death (like euthanasia, organ transplantation, death's definition etc.).
Discussion, applied ethical cases, judiciary cases are central part of the lectures.
Readings/Bibliography
Patrizia Borsellino, Bioetica tra “morali” e diritto, Milan, Raffaello Cortina, 2009.
Ronald Dworkin, Il dominio della vita, Milan, Edizioni di Comunità, 1994.
Hans Jonas, Tecnica, medicina ed etica, ed. by Paolo Becchi, Turin, Einaudi, 1997.
Massimo La Torre, Marina Lalatta, Alberto Scerbo, Questioni di vita o morte, Turin, Giappichelli, 2007 (chap. III, IV, VI, VII).
Marina Lalatta Costerbosa, Una bioetica degli argomenti, Turin, Giappichelli, 2012.
Teaching methods
Lectures, seminars and discussion on bioethical themes.
Assessment methods
Final oral examination.
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Marina Lalatta Costerbosa