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

TEACHING METHODS

Frontal lessons; seminar activities​

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

In the first module will be offered a general framework on the origins and development of the discipline, the main theories, the most significant models.

In the second module the different bioethical problems will be examined in the different areas to identify the research lines and the most significant regulatory guidelines

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

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--LUISELLA BATTAGLIA, Un'etica per il mondo vivente. Questioni di bioetica medica, ambientale, animale, Ed. Carocci, Roma 2011

-- LUISELLA BATTAGLIA, a cura di, Uomo, natura, animali. Per una bioetica della complessità, Ed., Altravista, Lungavilla , 2016.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

ALESSANDRA MODUGNO (President)

ALESSANDRO CATALDO (President Substitute)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Tuesday 1st March

Class schedule

BIOETHICS

EXAMS

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Oral, the most suitable for verifying the student's expository and

argumentative skills and for encouraging the development of a problematic perspective and a

personal critical vision.

FURTHER INFORMATION

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

NOTA BENE

The lessons will be held face-to-face and/or on line

Codex teams: 9kjqaaz

Dr. Alessandra Fabbri will hold a seminar on the topics of the course.

E-mail: alessandra.fabbri@ unige.it

Practical guided activities are planned which will be announced during the academic year.