Upon completion of this course you will have the ability to:
• identify and analyse ethical issues in the field of bioethics, e.g. on issues concerning medically assisted reproduction, end-of-life decisions, organ donation, new genetic technologies, public health;
• understand key ethical concepts, values and theories that are relevant to ethical issues in health care (e.g. autonomy, competence, informed consent, paternalism, health & disease);
• analyse and discuss a practical moral problem;
• reflect on a moral problem in the domain of health care and scrutinize arguments for and against possible answers, as a basis for a reasonable and justifiable judgment;
• critically reflect on your own ethical beliefs and justify your recommended course of action.
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Is euthanasia of demented patients in a progressed state morally permissible? When should doctors refuse requests for new technologies of assisted reproduction such as IVF? Do we have a moral duty to fund orphan drugs? What should government, industry and individuals do in order to tackle problems like obesity or organ donation? And are new technologies to enhance the capabilities of human beings (cognition, social behaviour & mood, or physical appearance) morally desirable? Medical ethics and public health ethics are interesting and complex fields of study. In this module we study pressing ethical issues and how theoretical approaches, concepts and methods may help us to deal with these issues.
LAS and TCS students who follow this course as part of the core curriculum of their major, need to complete a compulsory preparation course/assignment. See for more information: https://tcs.sites.uu.nl/
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