aVLRE07s Rethinking ethics: Challenges underlying technology and medicine

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Josef Kuře, Dr. phil. (seminar tutor)
Prof. Guido van Steendam, KU Leuven (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Josef Kuře, Dr. phil.
Department of Medical Ethics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Supplier department: Department of Medical Ethics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Timetable
Tue 26. 2. 13:30–16:00 A19/113
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 1/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The seminar will present recent insights in the way in which technology develops, and show how these insights challenge us to fundamentally rethink ethics, not just some specific ethical points of view, but the overall way in which we do ethics. The seminar will be organized in an interactive way, consisting of short presentations, group discussions and feedback.
Syllabus
  • The seminar will go further than a discussion of the common (and valid) thesis that “modern technologies” raise “new ethical questions challenges”. The seminar will consist of two sessions, and each session will consist of two units of one hour each. In the first three units we will discuss major results of recent studies on the way technology functions in society. In each of these units we will discuss the possibilities and limits of the way we traditionally see ethical questions linked to technology and medicine, and the way we traditionally deal with those questions. It will become evident than, that we are challenged to rethink ethics, not just some ethical points of view, but the overall way we do ethics. In the last session we will compile ideas about a realistic way to proceed.
Literature
  • VALLERO, Daniel A. Biomedical ethics for engineers : ethics and decision making in biomedical and biosystem engineering. Burlington: Elsevier. xxiii, 408. ISBN 9780750682275. 2007. info
  • HUTCHINGS, Kimberly. International political theory : rethinking ethics in a global era. 1st pub. London: SAGE Publications. xvi, 208 s. ISBN 0-7619-5516-X. 1999. info
  • New ethics for the public's health. Edited by Dan E. Beauchamp - Bonnie Steinbock. New York: Oxford University Press. xv, 382 p. ISBN 9780195124392. 1999. info
Teaching methods
seminar
Assessment methods
full attendace, activity in seminar
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6.
Teacher's information
The seminar is led by Prof. Guido van Steendam, Centre for Ethics, Social a Political Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium; teaching language is English.
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