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Ethical Labyrinths of Scientific Progress

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Course director

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 0 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 24 hours

total of: 24 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OTF-BES-T
  • 2 kredit
  • Biotechnology BSc
  • Optional modul
  • spring
Prerequisites:

-

Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 24

Topic

This seminar can be a continuation of the basic Medical ethics course for students who are more interested in the topic. This course has the opportunity to examine further interesting and important fields of biomedical ethics and ethics of sciences in general which can broaden the view of students and it can help them to be more sensitive for these kinds of questions in general.

Lectures

Practices

Seminars

  • 1. Bioethics - Laki Beáta
  • 2. Theoretical introduction - Laki Beáta
  • 3. Abortion and its general summary - Laki Beáta
  • 4. The situation of abortion in the world and its evaluation - Laki Beáta
  • 5. Selective abortion - The implications of it in Asia and in the world - Laki Beáta
  • 6. Pregnancy outside the body - ectogenesis - Laki Beáta
  • 7. Gametogenesis with created germ cells? - Laki Beáta
  • 8. Moral issues of human enhancement: what is possible and what are the consequences of them? - Laki Beáta
  • 9. Non invasive human enhancement? - Article presentation - Laki Beáta
  • 10. Cloning and its moral implications - Laki Beáta
  • 11. Immortality - studies, reality, potential future opportunities, moral analysis - Laki Beáta
  • 12. Animal trials and their ethical evaluation - Laki Beáta
  • 13. Human trials and their ethical evaluation - Laki Beáta
  • 14. The OxyContin scandal - issues and ethical evaluation; other drug trials in present days - Laki Beáta
  • 15. Lifeboat ethics - Article presentation - Laki Beáta
  • 16. Spaceship ethics - Article presentation - Laki Beáta
  • 17. Extinction and recreation of old species - moral issues and obligations? - Laki Beáta
  • 18. Facial recognition technologies and the use of them - Laki Beáta
  • 19. Human-machine interactions - Laki Beáta
  • 20. Uncanny Valley - Article presentation - Laki Beáta
  • 21. Bodies as machines, machines as bodies 1. - Article presentation - Laki Beáta
  • 22. Bodies as machines, machines as bodies 2. - Article presentation - Laki Beáta
  • 23. Kurzweil: The Singularity is Near - The Six Epochs - Laki Beáta
  • 24. What does the future hold? - self research based presentation - Laki Beáta

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Course materials will be available through Teams files.

Literature developed by the Department

Course materials will be available through Teams files.

Notes

Course materials will be available through Teams files.

Recommended literature

Course materials will be available through Teams files.

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Maximum 3 absences
Presenting a topic according to the later shared requirements from the topics that will be fixed on the first lesson.

Mid-term exams

Presentation from a chosen topic.

Making up for missed classes

There is no possibility.

Exam topics/questions

Course materials will be available through Teams files.

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

  • Laki Beáta
Rólunk