Virtues and skills of a midwife. Definition of moral philosophy and applied ethics (health care ethics, biomedical ethics); bioethics at the beginning and end of life; counselling, education, psychotherapy and ethics; ethical issues in the research, in the educational/clinical practice (truth telling, confidentiality, consent and so on), in the public health care and in health care policies (justice, vaccination, organ transplantation, animal rights, and so on). Cases of conflict between moral principles and new Italian and European laws about the aims, role and limits of the technicians and the other professionals involved in the health-care setting field. A special regard is offered to palliative care, in a bio-psycho-social and person-centered perspective, in order to protect human rights, to defend an independent scientific information, to avoid conflicts of interest and to respect gender-identities, conditions of poverty, ethnic origins. About 16 hours of direct interpersonal teaching are required as a general basic introduction.
Vis a vis lessons/lectures are going to deal with some of these topics and to show the proper learning methodology to widen the issues. Individual ways of further studying and investigating in ethics are to be taught and tested in the classroom.