Course Details

Current Issues in Bioethics

LOS: CR/UMAFSS25PHIL1

LOI: CR/UMAFSS25PHIL1


-ui_uihk_ilascbase_course_term-
Spring Semester 2024/25
-ui_uihk_ilascbase_course_level-
Bachelor
-ui_uihk_ilascbase_course_delivery-
Online
-ui_uihk_ilascbase_language-
English

Course Dates

Start: 2025-02-10

End: 2025-02-10

-ui_uihk_ilascbase_ects-
8 ECTS

Course Description

Bioethics is relatively a new discipline that combines ethics to life sciences. The main aim of it is to search for an answer how to live morally in a technologized world and to exercise giving decisions basically on hard issues of life and death. This course introduces the problems of life sciences through topics such as: Life and Death, Reproduction Systems, Allocation of the Sources, Organ Donations, Autonomous Decision, Experimentation with Humans and Animals. At the beginning of the course short history of b?oethics will be discussed. As Bioethics is an interdisciplinary course related Biology, Biotechnology, Genetics, Natural Sciences, Philosophy, Law, Politics and Religion the course will start with a focus on introducing the main streams of ethical views and how Bioethics related to other disciplines. Then it will be given to gather the methods of analyzing the bioethical questions through the aspect that one chooses to defend.