UCL - Law and ethics

[ESP2254]

[40h] 5 credits

Teacher(s):

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods

Aims

Identify the legal tools and the ethical principles and methodologies necessary to solve or identify problems in public health ethics.
- Integrate the legal and ethical approach to specific public health issues such as epidemics, psychiatric organisation, procreation
- Apply a personal reflexion from a critical and argumented point of view
- Cross pluralistic points of view
- Enter in the complexity of ethical and legal issues raised by the development of biomedical sciences.
- Question the social impact of techno-scientific development on public health regulations.

Main themes

The course is devised in two parts.

1) Social law and welfare preventie medicine and work incapacity.

2) Multidisciplinary approach concerning beginning and ad of life.

- Protection of body integrity

- Regulations of human expenmentation in innovatie medicined.

Content and teaching methods

The specific content of the course has to be decided around a specific topic each year. It has to articulate clinical ethics of the individual to global ethics in public health relating to prevention in communities.