MEDICAL DEONTOLOGY AND CLINICAL BIOETHICS
The frontal lessons are focused on the following topics:
Methods in clinical ethics
The end of life
Legal, deontological and ethical profiles. The difference between killing and letting die, active/passive euthanasia, proportionality of care, quality of life, over-treatment, palliative sedation, advance treatments directives, difference between withholding and withdrawing treatments and medical futility (when to suspend a futile treatment)
The organ transplants from living and corpse donor (with discussion about brain death criteria)
The beginning of life
Medically assisted procreation, abortion and stem cells.
The lectures are supported by the projection of PPT slides. The minimum attendance frequency required is 75% of the program.
The Professor is available for further clarification and doubts only by appointment, after an e-mail request. The Professor answers only e-mail signed and coming from the domain@studenti.uninsubria.it.
mario.picozzi@uninsubria.it