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CODE 67487
ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017
CREDITS
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR M-FIL/03
LANGUAGE Italiano
TEACHING LOCATION
SEMESTER 2° Semester
MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di:
TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

OVERVIEW

The course aims, on the one hand, to reconstruct the history of bioethics in its different dimensions-medical, environmental, animal -- and, second, to re-examine the ways in which moral reflection responded to the challenges of sciences of life (medicine, biology, ethology, ecology).

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES (FURTHER INFO)

The course aims, on the one hand, to reconstruct the history of bioethics in its different dimensions-medical, environmental, animal -- and, second, to re-examine the ways in which moral reflection responded to the challenges of sciences of life (medicine, biology, ethology, ecology).

TEACHING METHODS

Frontal lesson.

Seminariale activities.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

 The course, of 36 hours, is divided into two modules for a total of 6 credits.
  In the first module will be offered a general framework about the origins and development of the discipline, the main theories, the most important models.
 The second module will examine the various bioethical issues in different fields to identify the lines of research.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

--AA.VV, Uomo, natura, animali. Per una bioetica della complessità, a cura di Luisella Battaglia, Ed. AltraVista, Lungavilla (PV) 2016

 

--Frans de Waal, Primati e filosofi. Evoluzione e moralità, Garzanti, Milano 2008


A text of your choice:

--Ivan Cavicchi—Gian Mauro Numico, La complessità che cura  Dedalo, Bari 2015   

 

--Roberto marchesini, Etologia filosofica. Alla ricerca della soggettività animale, Mimesis, Milano 2016 

 

--Paolo Maddalena, Il territorio bene comune degli Italiani, Donzelli, Roma 2014  .

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

LUISA BATTAGLIA (President)

ALESSANDRA MODUGNO (President)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

February 20th.

Class schedule

BIOETHICS

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

oral

ASSESSMENT METHODS

 oral, the most suitable to check the exhibition and argumentation skills of the student and encouraging the development of a problematic perspective and a view  of personal criticism.

Exam schedule

Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note
23/05/2017 09:30 GENOVA Orale
06/06/2017 09:30 GENOVA Orale
20/06/2017 09:30 GENOVA Orale
11/07/2017 09:30 GENOVA Orale
05/09/2017 09:30 GENOVA Orale
19/09/2017 09:30 GENOVA Orale

FURTHER INFORMATION

Areas of availability thesis: philosophy, medical ethics, social ethics, environmental education, social sciences, social psychology, intercultural education, adult education.

Warning

 Dr. Alessandra Fabbri will hold a seminar on the issues of the course.
E-mail: alessandra.fabbri@unige.it; cell. 3400 046659
     There are guided practical activities  which will be announced during the academic year.