Bioethics

Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: MARIA VITA ROMEO

Expected Learning Outcomes

The module aims to examine in depth the main topics of bioethics on a background of philosophical reflection, allowing students to understand complex theoretical and practical frameworks created by technological development.

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1) knowledge and understanding skills such as to reinforce those achieved in the first cycle; ability to elaborate and / or apply original ideas, in a research context.

2) ability to apply knowledge and understanding and ability to solve problems to new or unfamiliar issues, inserted in broader (or interdisciplinary) contexts connected to one's field of study;

3) ability to integrate knowledge and to formulate judgments on the basis of information that is not necessarily complete;

4) ability to communicate one's knowledge clearly and unambiguously to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors.

5) ability to carry out research autonomously.

 

Course Structure

Conversation on the texts.

Required Prerequisites

Knowledge of the history of ethical-philosophical thought and general aspects of applied ethics.

Attendance of Lessons

Lectures and discussion on the topics of the course

Detailed Course Content

The module comprises an institutional part and a monographic part. The institutional part focuses on the definition of the epistemological statute of bioethics and on the analysis of some of the main topics, such as: the concept of person, assisted suicide and euthanasia. The monographic part focuses on a reflection of bioethics as a critical conscience of technological society and as a definition of the relationship between science and human responsibility

Textbook Information

A. Pessina, Bioetica. L’uomo sperimentale, Milano, Pearson, 2020, pp. 214.

A. Pessina, Eutanasia. Della morte e di altre cose, Siena, Cantagali, 2007, pp.116.

 

R. Guardini, Una morale per la vita, Brescia, Morcelliana, 2016, pp. 53-187.

R. Guardini, La fine dell’epoca moderna. Il Potere, Brescia, Morcelliana, 2007, pp. 217.

 

Learning Assessment

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

                                                                          
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