Bioethics
This course requires intellectual interest and discursive and critical ability to analyse new challenges posed by the scientific advances in the fields of life sciences, humans and biomedicine.
The aims of the course are:
- Analysis of the historical and scientific context in which "Bioethics" is born.
- Identification of the new problems and current debates generated by the new advances in the field of life sciences, new technologies and biomedicine.
- Understanding of the plurality of ideas and values around these issues in today's democratic societies.
- Creation of an appropriate debate space to facilitate the adoption of personal positions based on possible consensus, to evaluate the legal regulations, existing social conventions and moral convictions.
Important Notice on Course Suitability and Activities:
Some Summer School courses are designed for students with prior academic background in a specific discipline and may be unsuitable for participants without that preparation.
In addition, certain courses include discipline-standard practical activities (for example, laboratory work with biological specimens, dissections, use of clinical or forensic material, field sampling, or other hands-on procedures) that may be unfamiliar or unsettling for some participants.
Students are responsible for reading the course descriptor carefully and ensuring (i) that they meet any stated academic expectations or prerequisites, and (ii) that they are comfortable participating in the methods and activities described.
If you are unsure about suitability, please contact the course lecturer(s) before enrolling.
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Week |
Contents |
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| 1 |
General notion of Bioethics and its method |
| 2 |
Bioethics and Law |
| 3 |
AHRT, Genetics, resources allocation |
From Monday to Friday.
From 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Multiple choice test - 50%
Film essay - 40%
Teamwork - 10%
CASADO, María & LÓPEZ BARONI, Manuel J. (2018). Handbook of secular Bioethics. Edicions de la
Universitat de Barcelona: Barcelona. (Available at Campus Virtual)
STEINBOCK, Bonnie (2007). The Oxford handbook of Bioethics. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
SINGER, Peter & VIENS, A.H. (2008). The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics. Cambridge University
Press: Cambridge & New York.
Marc-Abraham Puig Hernández is an Associate Lecturer in Philosophy of Law (UAB). He is a PhD in Law and MD in Citizenship and Human Rights: Ethics and Politics. He does research on Reproductive Mobilities in a Spanish project I+D+i, of the Ministry of Science and Innovation. He is a lawyer and ICAB member. In addition, his field of investigation includes Legal Theory, History of Legal Ideas and Theories of Justice.
- Department of Political Science en Public Law
- E-mail: marcabraham.puig@uab.cat
Bárbara L. Monllor Taltavull is a substitute professor in the Area of Philosophy of Law, Autonomous University of Barcelona. Altogether, she is performing as a doctoral candidate in the Law program at the same university. Qualified to practice law, but not a member of the bar, she is a specialist in gender (Official Master's Degree in Women, Gender and Citizenship -IIEDG-) and in criminal law from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the University of Barcelona. Graduated in Law from the University of Valencia, she is a member of the collective Dones Juristes and the Observatory against LGTBIphobia of Barcelona, currently focusing on hate crimes and discrimination l on grounds of gender, gender identity and sexual identity. Regularly, she collaborates for the sensitization with official organisms such as the Spanish Judicial School.
- Area of Philosophy of Law
- E-mail: barbara.monllor@uab.cat