Fundamentals of Biomedical Ethics B

lfilo2201  2019-2020  Louvain-la-Neuve

Fundamentals of Biomedical Ethics B
Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
5 credits
30.0 h
Q1

  This biannual learning unit is not being organized in 2019-2020 !

Teacher(s)
Botbol Mylene (coordinator); Dupuis Michel;
Language
French
Prerequisites
Some instruction in the history of philosophy and philosophical anthropology. Some instruction in the life sciences.
 
Main themes
The first part of the course describes the main lines of the philosophical and biomedical context of contemporary biomedical ethics. Basic theories and concepts are analyzed. From that point various practical questions are studied, coming from various areas of biomedical practice : conception, end of life issues, health care policy, etc.
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 At the end of the course the student should be able :
  • to identify and discuss theories and concepts that are part of various current approaches in biomedical ethics
  • to analyse in depth a particular problem in biomedical ethics
  • to appreciate the interdisciplinary aspects of this area
  • to link the givens of problems in this area with developments in contemporary scientific research
 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
Starting from clinical and bioethical, classical and emerging fields, we are looking for (implicit or explicit) philosophical roots of evaluation (public opinion, public policy, professionals, etc.). A special attention will be devoted to an emerging question - the metabioethics.
Bibliography
Bibliographie de référence  :
M. Dupuis, Le soin, une philosophie (Paris, Seli Arslan, 2013)
M. Dupuis, L'éthique organisationnelle dans le secteur de la santé (Paris, Seli Arslan, 2014)
P.-L. Dostie-Proulx, M. Dupuis (eds), Cinq études de métabioéthique (Paris, Seli Arslan, à paraître en novembre 2014)
Des documents complémentaires aux leçons seront déposés sur le site iCampus.
Faculty or entity
EFIL


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in Ethics

Master [120] in Family and Sexuality Studies

Master [60] in Philosophy

Certificat universitaire en philosophie (approfondissement)

Master [120] in Philosophy