AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The teaching aims to:

• provide the student with the fundamental notions of general ethical values ​​and principles and their application in the environmental and health fields.

• develop in students the ability to carry out a specific evaluation on the models to be adopted for sustainable development;

At the end of the course, the student will be able to:

• Know the basic principles of bioethics and environmental legislation

• Recognize the main contents in the reference texts

• Apply the concepts learned to concrete cases

TEACHING METHODS

The module includes oral lecturing, seminar sessions  complemented with small group activities in the classroom.

In the event of a health emergency that prevents frontal lessons, the   lessons will be carried out remotely using the Office365-Teams platform in synchronous or asynchronous mode.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

- Historical introduction to bioethics: basic concepts and framework of the discipline
- Fundamental principles of bioethics
- The  person and the environment
- Ethics and environmental law
- One World - One Health: unique health concept

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Readings on environmental bioethics available on the website of the Italian Institute of Bioethics: https://www.istitutobioetica.it/index.php/bioetica-animale

Comitato Nazionale di Bioetica. Bioetica e Ambiente, 1995, Consultabile in: http://bioetica.governo.it/media/1907/p21_1995_bioetica-e-ambiente_it.pdf

Comitato Nazionale di Bioetica. Principio di precauzione: profili bioetici, filosofici, giuridici, 2004. Consultabile in: http://bioetica.governo.it/it/pareri/pareri-e-risposte/principio-di-precauzione-profili-bioetici-filosofici-giuridici/

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

FRANCESCO D'AGOSTINI (President)

CARLO CANOSSA

ROSAGEMMA CILIBERTI

PAOLO POVERO

SIMONE VALENTE

PAOLA FRANCESCA RIVARO (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)

LESSONS

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral exam.Ongoing written test and oral exam.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

 The chosen exam method aims to verify the organizational skills of the study, the research methodology, the basic knowledge, the skills and the targeted insights into some issues identified in the environmental context. 

Exam schedule