Course program
The origins of ethics and of medical deontology; - from the Hippocratic oath to deontological codes;deontological code - the Nuremberg code and the birth of bioethics; - bioethical committees and current issues; - applied bioethics; - principles of bioethics; languages, values and aspects of the development of medicine; - issues regarding the boundaries of human life; the issues of information about medical-patient communication; - ethical problems of prevention; fairness in health; - social determinants of health; - globalization and multiculturalism; - disease, sickness, illness; - cultural placement of the disease/illness experience; - medical-patient communication; - itineraries and therapeutic processes; the interaction of social, environmental and biological factors which influence health and illness both in the individual and the community as a whole; the critical analysis of interaction between biomedical services and population; the impact of biomedicine and biomedical technologies
Prerequisites
Research and understanding skills of scientific articles
Books
Various teaching materials will be offered in PDF at the end of the course. These materials will include a series of PPT slides in PDF that are shown and discussed during the lesson, as well as excerpts from the following books:
Berlinguer G., 2000, Bioetica quotidiana, Firenze, Giunti.
Angeletti L.R., Gazzaniga V., 2006, Storia, Filosofia ed etica generale della medicina, Milano, Masson
Byron Good, 2006, Narrare la malattia. Lo sguardo antropologico sul rapporto medico paziente, Torino, Einaudi.
Conforti M., Corbellini G., Gazzaniga V., 2011, Dalla cura alla scienza. Malattia, salute e società
nel mondo occidentale, Encyclomedia PublishersBeauchamp
L. –Childress J.F., 1999, Principi di etica biomedica, Firenze, Le Lettere.
Deontological Code
Teaching mode
Frontal lesson flipped classroom
If impossible, lessons via Meet and Classroom
Frequency
obligatory
Exam mode
The exam will include self-assessment tests that will be completed by a written exam aimed at verifying the level and degree of understanding that each student has reached with regard to the theoretical-methodological information provided during the course.
Bibliography
Grmek M.D., 2007, Storia del pensiero medico, Antichità e Medioevo, Roma, Laterza.
Beauchamp L. –Childress J.F., 1999, Principi di etica biomedica, Firenze, Le Lettere.
Berlinguer G., 2000, Bioetica quotidiana, Firenze, GiuntiPanter-Brick. 2014. Medical humanitarianism: Research insights in a changing field of practice. Social Science & Medicine 120:311 - 316. Publisher's VersionYang, Lawrence H, et al. 2014.What matters most: A cultural mechanism moderating structural vulnerability and moral experience of mental illness stigma. Social Science & Medicine 103:84 - 93. Publisher's VersionAbstract
Lesson mode
Frontal lesson flipped classroom
If impossible, lessons via Meet and Classroom
