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56848-01 - Seminar: Contemporary Debates in Bioethics: Ethics at the Edge of Medicine (2 CP)
| Semester | spring semester 2020 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers |
Olga Chivilgina (olga.chivilgina@unibas.ch)
Bernice Simone Elger (b.elger@unibas.ch, Assessor) Maddalena Favaretto (maddalena.favaretto@unibas.ch) Lester Darryl Geneviève (lester.genevieve@unibas.ch) Andrea Martani (andrea.martani@unibas.ch) |
| Content | Recent technological advances have been changing the conception of medicine and transforming the healthcare domain by increasing the complexity of stakeholders involved therein. Pushed by the urge to make healthcare systems more efficient and time- and cost-effective and also by economic interests of big tech companies, cutting-edge technologies - such as the use of artificial intelligence (e.g. machine learning) in medical robotics, big data analytics, gene editing techniques, mHealth and brain-computer interfaces - are now mushrooming in the healthcare arena. Such technologies raise a new set of ethical challenges on top of those traditionally inherent to the healthcare domain. On the one side, the conventional boundaries of medicine as well as the role and duties of care professionals are called into question. What are the limits of confidentiality in the doctor-patient relationship in the era of data-sharing? How do acceptable standards of care change with patients having direct access to their own medical information? On the other side, a plethora of additional ethical issues arises from the use of disruptive technologies. Is it ethically admissible to use animals to harvest organs for human? Are direct-to-consumer genetic tests reliable enough to allow informed decision making? Should medical treatments be performed by increasing automatic machines? This course will analyse these issue and provide an overview of the ethical questions raised from the evolving boundaries of the healthcare domain. An invited expert will lead each of the ten interactive sessions and focus on the ethics of different scenarios generate by the recent development of the medical sciences. Participants will become familiar with the promises and perils surrounding new technologies in medicine and with current ethical approaches in the field. The readings will be sent per email before each session. The themes which will be dealt with in the different sessions are: the concepts of health and disease; direct to consumer genetic testing; genome editing and Crispr/cas 9; Neuroethics; the use of Chimeras in medicine; Robots in medicine; Nudging; Apps in medical care for psychiatry; Algorithms for diagnostic and predictive purposes; Health technology assessment. The definitive dates in which each theme will be tackled will be shared with registered course participants at the beginning of February. |
| Comments | Suitable for medicine, law, psychology and philosophy students. |
| Course application | MONA |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Course auditors welcome |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Aufbaumodul (Teil C) (Transfakultäre Querschnittsprogramme im freien Kreditpunkte-Bereich) Aufbaumodul (Teil D) (Transfakultäre Querschnittsprogramme im freien Kreditpunkte-Bereich) Doctorate Biomedical Ethics: Recommendations (PhD subject: Biomedical Ethics) Doctorate Medical and Health Ethics: Recommendations (PhD subject: Medical and Health Ethics (Start of studies before 01.02.2015)) Electives Master Nursing: Recommendations (Master's Studies: Nursing) Modul: Praktische Philosophie (Master's degree subject: Philosophy) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Pass/fail. Criteria: Participants will have to write a 3-page essay, Times New Roman 12 ppt |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: teaching staff |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Medicine |
| Offered by | Institut für Bio- und Medizinethik |