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.p…

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-pre…