Upon completion of this course participants have the ability to:
• to recognize and critically analyse ethical issues in medicine and public health;
• to understand the major frameworks of ethical analysis and practical tools in biomedical and public health ethics for assessing these issues;
• to explain how particular arguments are related to more general normative ethical theories;
• to explain how anthropological assumptions and technological developments play a role in the moral debate;
• to adopt a clear position on a chosen ethical issue and to substantiate it (in a paper).
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Is euthanasia of demented patients in a progressed state morally permissible? Do we have a moral duty to develop and use enhancement technologies? What should government, industry and individuals do in order to tackle problems like obesity? Biomedical ethics is an interesting and complex branch of applied ethics. At the start of the course students will choose a specific ethical issue for an in-depth analysis. They will work during the course on this issue and scrutinize arguments in order to develop well-argued viewpoint or position resulting in a paper. During the course we will study the theoretical approaches, concepts, arguments and methods unnecessary to analyse these ethical issues including the influence of hidden (anthropological or moral) assumptions and technological developments within the different positions.
Career orientation: Students will learn what type of roles ethicists in the field of health care ethics play and the type of expertise needed. The achieved knowledge and skills are useful for a professional career in health care organizations as well academic ethics centers.
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