This teaching course includes the following modules
Module
Bioethics
Credit
5
SDS
MFIL/03
Description
Learning objectives: The course aims to analyze the issues of bioethics research, highlighting the main aspects of the current debate which involves different cultures and traditions and, in an interdisciplinary perspective, combines different contributions of diverse knowledges, such as science, philosophy, ethics, law Birth, death, health, preservation of the biosphere, possible forms of recognition of non human otherness represent some of the most significant issues to be analyzed during the lessons In particular, the implications and the impact on the public debate of advanced biotechnologies, considered as factors of transformation of biological and historical life, will be discussed in the frame of the course Critical survey will be given to the complexity of the links that exist among scientific research, ethical inquiry, legal regulation, political decision Fundamental objectives of the course are: - Developing knowledges concerning the history, terminology and methodologies of bioethics research; - Promoting skills and independent judgment through contextualization and interpretation of the problems posed by bioethics and biolaw Contents: - Bioethics: the word and the things - The different approaches to bioethics research - Ethics, law and technosciences: the principles of autonomy, responsibility and precaution - Biomedicine and the right to health: human dignity and self-determination - Boundary stones: assisted procreation and assisted death - The frontiers of genetics: the debate on genetic tests and on stem cells - Prerogatives of the human being and of the machine: the post-human - Biotechnology and environment: ecological crisis, biodiversity, GMO - "Food for thought": the food industry between market and informed choice - Ethics and rights of nonhuman beings - National and international documents regarding biotechnologies - Society and biotechnology products and processes: governance of scientific research
