Course: Healthcare Provider Ethics

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Course title Healthcare Provider Ethics
Course code KF/EZFK5
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Chrásková Jana, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Seminar Topics: 1. consultation: The principle of responsibility in the relation to the professional performance. Ethical aspects of the medical profession. Ethical codes and conditions for its acceptance. Patient's rights and their role in the humanization of medicine. Bioethics issues. Ethical problems of assisted reproduction. Ethical problems in geriatrics and palliative care. The quality of life and human dignity, euthanasia and assisted suicide. Genetic technology: cloning, stem cells, embryonic research, question of genetic testing. Ethical questions of organs transplants. Medical research and it's regulation. Ethical problems of new technologies implementation: artificial organs. Ethical problems related to alternative medicine, advertising, financial resources allocation in the medical field. Self-Study: 1. Ancient ethical medical documents. 2. The history of medical ethics in Bohemia. 3. The problems of ideal and available medicine. 4. Ethical codes (non-medical health care professions).

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
It is a theoretical subject. The aim is to create some basic preconditions for the skill to polemize about the duality of the ethical phenomena in the sense of "what is and what is supposed to be."
Subject Knowledge: Students can define basic philosophical and ethical concepts with the emphasis on the impulses which influence and take part in the development of professional ethics of a medical staff member. Subject Skills: Students can describe the principles of current ethical codes used in the medical field and afterwards they can make more specific discussion and undertake an individual research of selected ethical problems.
Prerequisites
Conditional subject was not determined.

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Active class participation; a written project covering the assigned topic.
Recommended literature
  • Úmluva o lidských právech a biomedicíně. Ministerstvo zdravotnictví ČR, Praha 2000..
  • ANZENBACHER, A. Úvod do etiky. 1. české vyd. z něm. originálu Einfűhrung in die Ethik vyd. Patmos Verlag, Dűsseldorfu,1992, přel. K. Šprunk. Praha: Academia, 2001. 292 s. ISBN 80-200-0953-1..
  • HAŠKOVCOVÁ, H.:. Informovaný souhlas. Praha: Galen, 2007. 104s. ISBN 978-80-7262-497-3.
  • HAŠKOVCOVÁ, H. Lékařská etika. 1. vyd. Praha: Galén, 233 s. ISBN 80-85824-03-5. 1994.
  • HAŠKOVCOVÁ, H. Práva pacientů. Komentované vydání. Nakl. Aleny Krtilové 1996.
  • Kohák, E. Svoboda, svědomí, soužití. Praha, 2004.
  • KOŘENEK, J. Lékařská etika. Praha: Triton, 2004..
  • MUNZAROVÁ, M. a kol. Proc NE eutanázii, aneb Být, ci nebýt. V kostelním Vydří:Karmelitánské vydavatelství,2008. 87s.ISBN 978-80-7195-258-9.
  • MUNZAROVÁ, M. Vybrané kapitoly z lékařské etiky I. 1.vyd. Brno:LFMU,2002.75s.. 2002. ISBN 80-210-3917-8.
  • MUNZAROVÁ, M. Vybrané kapitoly z lékařské etiky II. 1.vyd. Brno:LFMU,2000.67s.. ISBN 80-210-2416-X.
  • MUNZAROVÁ, M. Vybrané kapitoly z lékařské etikyIII.1.vyd.Brno:LFMU,2000.56s.. 2000. ISBN 80-210-2417-8.
  • MUNZAROVÁ, M. Vybrané kapitoly z lékařské etikyIV.1.vyd. Brno:LFMU,2000.65s.. 2000. ISBN 80-210-2499-2.
  • MUNZAROVÁ, M. Zdravotnická etika od A do Z. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2005, 156 s.. 2005. ISBN 80-247-1024-2.
  • POLLARD, B. Eutanazie - ano či ne? Praha:Dita, 1995.
  • Störig, H. J. Malé dějiny filozofie. Zvon, Praha 1991. 1991.


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