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

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

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

--Luisella Battaglia, Un’etica per il mondo vivente. Questioni di bioetica medica, ambientale, animale, Ed. Carocci, Roma

--luisella Battaglia, a cura di, Uomo, natura, animali. Per una bioetica della complessità, Ed. Altravista, Lungavilla (PV)

A text of your choice:

--Giorgio Macellari, La rivoluzione etica in medicina. Manuale di etica per il giovane medico, Ed. Angeli, Milano       

--Marianna Gensabella Furnari, a cura di, Donne, bioetica e cittadinanza. Spunti teorici e sguardi sul contesto italiano Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli  

--Francesco Del Pizzo-Pasquale Giustiniani, Biosfera, acqua, bellezza. Questioni di bioetica ambientale ,Mimesis, Milano-Udine

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

LUISA BATTAGLIA (President)

ALESSANDRA MODUGNO (President)

ALESSANDRA FABBRI

LESSONS

LESSONS START

February 26th.

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

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.