Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500786 Law | OT | 4 | 1 |
Intellectual interest and discursive and critical ability to analyze new challenges posed by the scientific advances in the fields of life sciences and biomedicine.
Contents:
1. Origins: science and technology during the twentieth century; definitions of Bioethics; bioethical conflict resolution.
2. Gender, moral pluralism and cultural diversity.
3. Bioethics and Law: regulating medicine; informed consent; Bioethics committees.
4. Technology and Big Data: research; user information; new technologies and information technologies vs. fundamental rights.
5. Health treatments: human and animal experimentation; patients' rights; medical record privacy.
6. Sexual and reproductive rights: sex education and contraceptive methods; abortion; conscientious objection of health professionals.
7. Assisted Reproduction I: Assisted Human Reproduction Techniques; embryoslegal status; gamete donation and anonymity.
7. Assisted Reproduction II: surrogacy; reproductive cloning; individual freedom, contract and market.
9. Human Genetics: Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis; gene therapy; genetics and eugenics.
10. The end of life: treatment refusal; palliative care and terminal sedation; euthanasia.
11. Justice and Health: health resources allocation; equality and health; obligations towards future generations.
The teaching of the subject and the training of the students will be done during the course based on the following activities:
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Practical classes and teamwork | 22.5 | 0.9 | 14, 13, 12, 15 |
Theoretical classes | 22.5 | 0.9 | 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 8, 11, 2 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Assessment | 5 | 0.2 | 14, 3, 6, 9, 10, 8, 11, 7, 15 |
Exam preparation | 57.5 | 2.3 | 1, 14, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 8, 11, 7, 13, 15, 2 |
Reading | 37.5 | 1.5 | 1, 9, 11, 13, 12, 15 |
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Exam | 50% | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 8, 11, 7, 2 |
Practical case | 25% | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 3, 6, 9, 11, 7, 13, 12, 15, 2 |
Team work | 25% | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 14, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 8, 11, 7, 13, 12, 16, 15, 2 |
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BOLADERAS, Margarita (ed.) (2012): Bioética, Género y Diversidad cultural, Barcelona, Proteus.
CASADO, María & ROYES, Albert (coords.) (2012): Sobre bioética y género, Navarra, Thomson/Aranzadi.
CASADO, María & LÓPEZ BARONI, Manuel (2019): Handbook of secular Bioethics (I) Key Issues, Barcelona, Edicions Universitat de Barcelona. Available in: http://www.bioeticayderecho.ub.edu/sites/default/files/handbook-secular-bioethics-i.pdf
DE LORA, Pablo; GASCÓN, Marina (2008): Bioética. Principios, Desafios, Debates, Madrid, Alianza Editorial.
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DICKENSON, Donna (2012): Bioethics: all that matters, London, Hodder Education.
DWORKIN, Ronald (1994): El dominio de la vida, Barcelona, Ariel.
HABERMAS, Jürgen (2002): El futuro de la naturaleza humana ¿Hacia una eugenesia liberal?, Barcelona, Paidós.
KUHSE, Helga and SINGER, Peter (2011): A companion to Bioethics, Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
RODEN, David (2017) “Humanism, Transhumanism and Posthumanism”, available in: https://www.academia.edu/353704/Humanism_Transhumanism_and_Posthumanism
ROMEO CASABONA, Carlos M. (dir.) (2022): Manual de Bioderecho, Madrid, Dykinson.
SANDEL, Michael J. (2012): What money can’t buy: the moral limits of the markets, Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
SANDEL, Michael J. (2007): The case against perfection: Ethics in the age of genetic engineering, Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
SINGER, Peter (1993); Practical Ethics, second edition, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
SINGER, Peter (2009): Animal Liberation: a new Ethics for our treatment of animals, New York, Harper Perennial Modern Classics.
SINGER, Peter & KUHSE, Helga (1999): Bioethics. An Anthology, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing.
TOMLINSON, Tom (1998) “Balancing Principles in Beauchamp and Childress” Michigan State University. Available in: https://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Bioe/BioeToml.htm
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