Subject

Ethics

  • code 12523
  • course 4
  • term Semester 1
  • type OB
  • credits 6

Module: TRANSVERSE TRAINING

Matter: ETHICS

Main language of instruction: English

Other languages of instruction: Catalan, Spanish

Timetable
 Sem.1  TU 14:00 16:00 P2A01
 Sem.1  WE 14:00 16:00 P2A01

Teaching staff

Head instructor

Dra. Begoña María BOSCH - bbosch@uic.es

Office hours

Begoña Bosch: Please send an email to set up a meeting to bbosch@uic.es.

Introduction

In the event that the health authorities announce a new period of confinement due to the evolution of the health crisis caused by COVID-19, the teaching staff will promptly communicate how this may effect the teaching methodologies and activities as well as the assessment.

Technological advances have created new scenarios for all professionals in the health sciences and have raised great hopes of real improvements to the lives and future of mankind. However, it is also common in clinical practice, scientific research and management that problems and questions of an ethical nature arise and unambiguously demonstrate the need for a constant relationship and integration between technical and ethical issues, so that the acquisition of new knowledge is carried out in order to give maximum assistance to the most vulnerable. For full professional, technical and scientific training it is not enough to practice bioengineering correctly: there is also an ethical dimension.

The "Ethics" course aims to reflect on the value of human life, the respect it deserves and its relationship to good health. Based on the principles that should inspire Bioengineering conduct, it is necessary to know how to integrate the actions that arise in daily practice, know the individual’s rights and the main health regulations governing professional skills.

Training in "Ethics" aims to provide students in Bioengineering with knowledge and specific training that will train and help them, not only in making the best decisions in situations that are considered to be limited, but also to know how to act in various situations that arise in daily practice.


Objectives

  1. To develop the ability to think and argue about ethical issues based on an analysis of the current situation.

  2. To provide conceptual tools to understand the importance of acquiring the principles and fundamental virtues of the ethics of care: compassion, competence, confidence, trust.

  3. To discover the meaning and value of the fundamental principle of the dignity of the human person, particularly in areas related to illness or other vulnerable situations, taking into consideration both the physical and mental limitations of the person.

  4. To demonstrate the importance of interpersonal communication in the context of the therapeutic relationship.

  5. To learn the basics of professional health legislation.

  6. To analyse the important implications of social and cultural diversity for understanding health.

Competences / Learning outcomes of the degree programme

  • CB3 - Students must have the ability to bring together and interpret significant data (normally within their area of study) and to issue judgements that include a reflection on important issues that are social, scientific or ethical in nature.
  • CB4 - Students can transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
  • CE8 - To hold a dialogue based on critical thinking on ideas connected to the main dimensions of the human being
  • CG10 - To know how to work in a multilingual and multidisciplinary environment.
  • CG4 - To resolve problems based on initiative, be good at decision-making, creativity, critical reasoning and communication, as well as the transmission of knowledge, skills and prowess in the field of Bioengineering
  • CT3 - To know how to communicate learning results to other people both verbally and in writing, and well as thought processes and decision-making; to participate in debates in each particular specialist areas.
  • CT4 - To be able to work as a member of an interdisciplinary team, whether as a member or by management tasks, with the aim of contributing to undertaking projects based on pragmatism and a feeling of responsibility, taking on commitment while bearing the resources available in mind.

Learning outcomes of the subject

  • Make decisions by introducing the variable of ethics at home reflection.

  • Express your own ideas freely without violating or offending others

  • Understand the role and responsibility of science and technology in today's society.

Syllabus

I. FUNDAMENTAL ETHICS

  • Rational Foundations of Ethics

  • Human consciousness

  • Human action

  • The virtues and values

  • Ethics of social life

II. ETHICS AND LEGISLATION

  • Law and rights

              The moral law. Features and content

              Morality-legality distinction

              Human rights

  • Legislation of clinical practice

              Legal liability

III. APPLIED ETHICS

  • Methodological principles of ethical decisions

  • Origin and development of Bioethics

  • Beginning of human life

  • Fragile life ethics

  • Term of human life

  • Research Ethics

Teaching and learning activities


In blended

The course is usually taught through theoretical sessions (lectures) and practice sessions. The content of the lectures will consist of the main topics and concepts of the units which are detailed in the course syllabus. Regarding practical classes, they will be based mainly on carrying out practical work, where current cases will be analyzed and debated in order to illustrate and deepen the concepts explained above. In case of not being able to be in person, the same will be done but in a virtual way by video calls.

Evaluation systems and criteria


In blended

The Ethics course is approved with a 5. The global mark is obtained by making the weighted average of four activities, which in case of not being in-person may be virtual through videocalls:

a) Continuous evaluation (10%): resolution of cases in the master classes (either in person or virtual).

b) Practical work (20%): written part and oral part (either in person or virtual).

c) Elimination partial exam (20%): written in case of being in person, it can be oral in case of being virtual.

d) Final exam (50%): written if it is in person, it can be oral if it is virtual.

*  The minimum grade for the final exam to pass the course must be higher than 4.5.

Important considerations:

  1. Plagiarism, copying or any other action that may be considered cheating will be zero in that evaluation section. Besides, plagiarism during exams will mean the immediate failing of the whole subject.

  2. In the second-sitting exams, the maximum grade students will be able to obtain is "Excellent" (grade with honors distinction will not be possible).

  3. Changes of the calendar, exam dates or the evaluation system will not be accepted.

  4. Exchange students (Erasmus and others) or repeaters will be subjected to the same conditions as the rest of the students.

Bibliography and resources

MANUALS:

  • POLAINO, A., Manual de Bioética General, Rialp, 2000.
  • CICCONE, L.; Bioética. Historia.Principios. Cuestiones. Palabra, Madrid, 2005.
  • SGRECCIA, E., Manual de Bioetica I: Fundamentos y Ética Biomédica, BAC, 2010.

CONSULTING:

  • ABEL, F., Bioética: orígenes, presente y futuro, Madrid, Institut Borja de Bioética, Fundación Mapfre medicina, reimp., 2001.
  • BEAUCHAMPS, T.L., CHILDRESS, F. J., Principios de Ética Biomédica, Barcelona, Mason 4ª ed., 2000.
  • BLAZQUEZ, N., Bioética: La nueva ciencia de la vida. Madrid, BAC, 2000.
  • PASTOR L.M., FERRER, M., La bioética en el milenio biotecnológico, Murcia,Sociedad Murciana de Bioética,2001.
  • POISSON, J.F. Bioética ¿El hombre contra el hombre?, Rialp, Madrid, 2009.

INTERNET:

  • - Bioethicsline www.bioethics.Georgetown.edu/bioline.htm
  • - Euroethics www.gwdg.de/-uelsner/entrez/.fcgi
  • - Asociación Médica Mundial www.wma.net
  • - Canadian Bioethics Society:  www.bioethics.ca/english
  • - Asociación Europea de Centros de Ética Médica: www.kuleuven.ac.be/cbmer/eacmeherstel.htm
  • - European Bioethical Research: www.bioethics.org.uk
  • - Asociación Española de Bioética y Ética médica: www.aebioetica.org
  • - Bioética y Derecho. Universidad de Barcelona: www.Ub.es/fildt/bioetica.htm
  • - Centro de Documentación de Bioética del departamento de Humanidades Biomédicas: www.unav.es/cdb
  • -Observatorio de Bioética de Valencia: www.observatoriobioetica.com

Evaluation period

E: exam date | R: revision date | 1: first session | 2: second session:

  • E1 08/01/2021 14:00h P2A01
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