Current Topics and Problem Areas in Reproductive Ethics

Daten

Offizielle Daten in der Fachveröffentlichung für das folgende akademische Jahr: 2020-2021

Thematik

The seminar provides an introduction into current topics and problem areas of reproductive ethics. In order to avoid the dead-end of the pro-life vs. pro-choice controversy, the course is designed to address ethical questions of reproductive ethics in a multidisciplinary manner with a special focus on parental responsibility. Students will be provided to chance to analyze challenges faced by parents, medical professionals and policy makers with regard to reproductive choices, note how medical developments and social changes interact. The issue-centered seminar should give students the chance to approach bioethical questions in a critical manner through an analysis of complex medical cases.

Vorlesungen

Praktika

Seminare

• 1. An anthropology of genealogy
• 2. The moral status of the embryo in religious, philosophical and legal traditions
• 3. Reproductive ethics in context: a short history of reproductive medicine
• 4. Reproductive ethics in context: social theories of parenthood
• 5. The existential context of prenatal diagnosis and screening
• 6. Ethical questions of assisted human reproduction
• 7. Social egg freezing
• 8. Anonymous gamete donation
• 9. Surrogacy
• 10. Global reproductive tourism
• 11. Human cloning
• 12. Genetic enhancements

Materialien zum Aneignen des Lehrstoffes

Obligatorische Literatur

DeGrazia, David: Creation Ethics. Reproduction, Genetics, and Quality of Life, Oxford University Press, 2012.
Fenwick, Lyn: Private Choices, Public Consequences. Reproductive Technology and the New Ethics of Conception, Pregnancy, and Family, Dutton Adult, 1998.
Fisher, Anthony: Catholic Bioethics for a New Millennium, Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Mundy, Liza. Everything Conceivable: How the Science of Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Our World. New York: Anchor, 2008.
Nahman, Michal Rachel: Extractions: An Ethnography of Reproductive Tourism, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Overall, Christine: Why Have Children?: The Ethical Debate, MIT Press, 2012.
Ryan, Maura A.: Ethics and Economics of Assisted Reproduction. The Cost of Longing, Georgetown University Press, 2001.

Vom Institut veröffentlichter Lehrstoff

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Empfohlene Literatur

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Voraussetzung zum Absolvieren des Semesters

Maximum of 15 % absence allowed

Semesteranforderungen

Students are expected to 1) participate in classes in an active and constructive manner; 2) complete a short research on a topic of interest; 3) present the findings of the research in class and 4) in written form. Students will be evaluated on the basis of the fulfillment of the mentioned requirements (40% participation; 30% presentation; 30% written research report).

Möglichkeiten zur Nachholung der Fehlzeiten

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Prüfungsfragen

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Prüfer

Praktika, Seminarleiter/innen

• Dr. Kovács Gusztáv
• Dr. Szolcsányi Tibor