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Bioetics

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Course ID:	1400-218BET-OG
Erasmus code / ISCED:	(unknown) / (unknown)
Course title:	Bioetics
Name in Polish:	Bioetyka
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Biology
Course groups:	General university courses General university courses at Faculty of Biology General university subjects
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	2.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	general courses
Short description:	An introductory course of bioethics for students of biology and biotechnology.
Full description:	Part I 1. Basic concepts of philosophical ethics; the moral aspects of science. 2. Selected bioethical regulations. Ethical theories: consequentialism. 3. Ethical theories continued: perfectionism and the theory of natural law; theory of duty. 4. Slected argumentative strategies: the priniciple of double effect, slippery slope argument. 5. The concept of the person and personal identity. The argument from potential. 6. The mind-body problem. The moral status of animals. 7. Environmental ethics: anthropocentrism, theocentrism, deep ecology. Part II Ethics in biotechnology, GMO, problems of assisted reproduction, cloning, stem cells, the problems of definition of the beginnings of life and of death, genetics and politics, racism, organ transplantations, the limits of genetic interventions, legal regulations in the world and in the EU.
Bibliography:	B. Mepham, Bioetyka. Wprowadzenie dla studentów nauk biologicznych, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2008 Other reading will be recommended during the course.
Learning outcomes:	After completion of the course students know and understand: 1. the characteristic features of ethical regulation and its role in the life sciences; 2. selected philosophical ethical theories and their limitations; 3. main argumentative strategies which are used in bioethical discussions; 4. basic principles of ethical integrity in scientific research and publication of its results. After completion of the course students can: 1. analyze ethical statements and distinguish their normative assumptions form descriptive assumptions; 2. relying on current biological knowledge and normative theories, justify his/her own opinion concerning selected bioethical questions; 3. assess ethical integrity of a scientific communication or of a research report.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Final test.

Classes in period "Summer semester 2023/24" (in progress)

Time span:	2024-02-19 - 2024-06-16	Selected timetable range: weekly course term Navigate to timetable MO TU W TH WYK FR
Type of class:	Lecture, 30 hours more information
Coordinators:	Paweł Łuków
Group instructors:	Dorota Hoffman-Zacharska, Paweł Łuków
Students list:	(inaccessible to you)
Examination:	Course - Examination Lecture - Examination

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