Data
Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025
Course director
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Szolcsányi Tibor
assistant professor,
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Number of hours/semester
lectures: 0 hours
practices: 0 hours
seminars: 14 hours
total of: 14 hours
Subject data
- Code of subject: OTL-BIOE-T
- 1 kredit
- Biotechnology BSc
- Soft Skills for Biotechnology modul
- spring
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Course headcount limitations
min. 5 – max. 99
Topic
The primary objective of the course is to present and discuss basic ethical considerations that are relevant to biotechnological research and various applications of biotechnology. Course topics include: international standards of modern medical ethics, main aspects of environmental ethics, animal protection ethics, laboratory biosafety ethics, ethical dilemmas of genetic engineering in plant, animal and human organisms.
Lectures
Practices
Seminars
- 1. Introduction - Laki Beáta
- 2. Basic notions, Theories - Laki Beáta
- 3. Moral issues of genetic interventions 1. - Laki Beáta
- 4. Moral issues of genetic interventions 2. - Laki Beáta
- 5. Moral issues of genetic interventions - GMOs 1. - Laki Beáta
- 6. Moral issues of genetic interventions - GMOs 2. - Laki Beáta
- 7. Reproductive ethics 1. - Laki Beáta
- 8. Reproductive ethics 2. - Laki Beáta
- 9. Ethics of organ- and tissue transplantation 1. - Laki Beáta
- 10. Ethics of organ- and tissue transplantation 2. - Laki Beáta
- 11. Environmental ethics 2. - Laki Beáta
- 12. Environmental ethics 1. - Laki Beáta
- 13. Semester closure - Laki Beáta
- 14. Test exam - Laki Beáta
Reading material
Obligatory literature
A. R. Jonsen, M. Siegler, W. J. Winsdale, Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, 8th edition, 2015, McGraw-Hill Education, New York
P. Nambisan 2017. An introduction to ethical, safety and intellectual property rights issues in biotechnology. Academic Press. (chapters 5-11; pp 127-272.)
J. Morris 2006. The Ethics of Biotechnology, Infobase Publishing
Literature developed by the Department
Notes
Recommended literature
M. Hauskeller: Biotechnology and the Integrity of Life, Ashgate, 2007
B. Steinbock: The Oxford handbook of bioethics. Oxford University Press, 2007
Conditions for acceptance of the semester
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Mid-term exams
According to the Studies and Exams Code.
Making up for missed classes
None.
Exam topics/questions
Test questions from notes.
Examiners
- Laki Beáta
Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars
- Laki Beáta