BIOETHICS AND HUMANITIES
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- Bibliography
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A good general knowledge acquired by the media and literary texts.
A written multiple choice test is eventually submitted both for Bioethics and History of Medicine. The test shows the reached level of theoretical knowledge, of ethics-applying skills and of other competences in history (SdM) and medical humanities. The "idoneità" will be certified if the student passes both the parts of the integrated course (Bioetica and Scienze Umane). In case of failure the whole examination has to be repeated.
Training the students for a coherent ethical reasoning in biomedical, social and educational contexts of health care research, practice and work; fostering the personal skills in perceiving a moral dilemma, in justifying an individual evaluation and in dealing with a disagreement inside the staff; implementing the competences in narrative ethics.
For what particularly concerns Medical Humanities / History of Medicine (SdM):The objective of the course is to provide and introduction to the foundations of medical western thinking, investigating it through Hippocratic-galenic medicine.
BIOETHICS. Ethical issues in health care skills. Definition of biomedical ethics; bioethics at the beginning and end of life; psychotherapy and ethics; ethical issues in the research, in the clinical practice (truth telling, confidentiality, consent and so on), in the public health care (justice, vaccination, organ transplantation, animal rights, and so on) [for details, see the index of the suggested handbooks].
SdM (History of Medicine):
Definition of medicine
Instinctive medicine and regular medicines
Hippocrates - The Oath - Theory of Humors
Galen - The physiological anatomy system
P.M. Cattorini, Bioetica.Metodo ed elementi di base per affrontare problemi clinici, Elsevier, Milano, 4th ed., 2011; P.M. Cattorini, Bioetica e cinema, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2° ed. 2006; T.L. Beauchamp – J.F. Childress, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, Oxford Univ. Press, last edition; G.Boniolo-P.Maugeri, Eds., Etica alle frontiere della biomedicina Milano, Mondadori, 2014; D. Neri, La bioetica in laboratorio, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2005.
SdM:
G. ARMOCIDA - B. ZANOBIO, Storia della medicina, Masson, Milano 2002
By following the introductory exposition (ethical and historical) by the teachers, and by dealing with concrete situational problems, cognitive knowledge, emotional discernment, communicating competence and ethics-applying skills are fostered and trained. Theories, principles, ways of reasoning, logical rules, linguistic ambiguities, historical styles of behavior and moral questions are presented, commented and analyzed in a pluralistic manner. Relevant key words and issues will be debated and interdisciplinary professional dilemmas will be criticized and evaluated. Narrative texts, especially motion pictures, will involve the group in the emotional heart of complex cases, outline the social imaginary, help the expression of individual insights and feelings, prepare a mature staff decision.
These are the mail Addresses: paolo.cattorini@uninsubria.it ; ilaria.gorini@uninsubria.it.
For more information and individual consultation in “Padiglione Antonini”, via Rossi 9, Varese, the student is invited to preliminarily contact the Professor at his/her email address.
Modules
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Credits: 2
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Credits: 1