Professional virtues of a technician and health-care skills. Cases of conflict between moral principles and new Italian and European laws about the aims, role and limits of the professionals involved in the biomedical field (doctors, technicians, researchers, educators, social workers). Definition of biomedical ethics; bioethics at the beginning and end of life (with special regard to palliative care, in a bio-psycho-social and person-centered perspective); psychotherapy and ethics; ethical issues in the scientific research and in drug experimentation (in order to protect human rights, to defend an independent scientific information and to avoid conflicts of interest), in the clinical practice (truth telling, confidentiality, consent and so on), in the public health care (justice, risks of health care commercialization, vaccination, organ transplantation, animal rights, and the duty to respect gender-identities, conditions of poverty, ethnic origins) [for details, see the index of the suggested handbooks].
About 14 hours of direct interpersonal teaching (4 for beginning of life, 4 for end-of-life issues, 6 for the other issues) are required as a general basic introduction.