The bioethics course aims to illustrate the ethical implications of the nursing profession, through the exploration of health problems that pose choices regarding the fundamental and borderline issues of human and animal life, the issues of disease and its treatment, doctor-patient communication, extreme choices and the limits of medical intervention. Through concrete examples, the fundamental principles of bioethics will be exposed: autonomy (i.e. self-determination of the patient), beneficence, non-maleficence (in harmony with the ancient Hippocratic aphorism "primum non nocere"), justice.
Course Prerequisites
General scientific and historical knowledge obtained in high school courses.
Teaching Methods
Lessons. Practical aspects: visit to the Historical Museum of the University of Pavia.
Assessment Methods
Multiple choice and gap-filling tests
Texts
General bibliography: Gilberto Corbellini, Chiara Lilli "Bioetica per perplessi. Una guida ragionata" Mondadori Università, 2016 Edoardo Manzoni, Maura Lusignani, Beatrice Mazzoleni "Storia e filosofia dell'assistenza infermieristica", Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, 2 ed. 2019. - C. Botti, Vulnerabili, Etica e cura nell'età della pandemia, Roma, Castelvecchi, 2022.
Contents
Introduction: bioethics, the historical background Neuroethics The criteria for determining brain death Euthanasia Informed consent and living will Assisted fertilization Biotechnology Abortion and the status of the embryo Animal bioethics Environmental bioethics
Course Language
Italian
More information
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