Bioethics T-KP-SJ>bioety-7

Bioethics is divided into 3 parts: general, specialized and clinical. However, non-medical schools and universities are concerned only with the two first. The General Bioethics (I semester) if focused on the changes in medicine after the II WW, and on the need of the new science which copes with ethical issues linked to the development of the contemporary medicine and biotechnology, particularly within the pluralistic societies. It says about the history of medical care and the moral consciousness linked to its development, the definition of Bioethics, the so called bioethical models and the fundamental principles of the Catholic Bioethics.
Specialized Bioethics (II semester) is concerned with the particularly difficult problems within the medicine and biotechnology. These problems are discussed according to the schema of the development of the human life: from the moment of his/her conception through the mature human life until the human death. Thus we have here the following issues: genetics (genetic engineering, cloning, genetic therapy, genetic diagnosis, genetic enhancement), the transmission of the human life (contraception, IVF and other techniques of assisted conception, abortion), transplants (and xenotransplants, stem cells), euthanasia, the futile therapy, the palliative care.

To get the final vote it is required that the student frequents the lectures (during the pandemic time listens to and learns the recorded lectures) and reads the books and papers indicated by the professor. Any other form of the completion of the subject requires the professor's permission. However this kind of permission should be obtained as soon as possible (not during the time of exam or just before it).