UCL - Ethics and research in health

[ESP2144]

[30h] 3 credits

Teacher(s):

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods

Aims

The student will be familiarized with the ethical issues surrounding the historical evolution of the ethics of research ethics since Nuremberg.

- He will be able to articulate general principles of research ethics in order to rethink individual capacities of the subject of research and his rights as a citizen to realize his responsibility in terms of public health ethics.
- The student will be given tools in order to question the ethnicity of public health models in mutation.

Main themes

Medical ethics and regulation in terms of distributive justice.

- Contextualization of research regulations
- Tension between patient rights and therapeutic freedom
- Research freedom and vulnerable populations
- Informed consent in illiterate contexts
- Redefinition of the goals of global health ethics
- Situated anthropology as a tool of prevention and justice in research protocols

Content and teaching methods

1) Confrontation of moral intuitions in pluralist democracy with the tools of pragmatic decision making in a coherent argumentation.
2) The tools of pragmatic decision making in a coherent argumentation.

- Methods
Work in small groups on texts available on icampus to promote a participatory reflexion.