Ethical Labyrinths of Scientific Progress

Adatok

A Tantárgybejelentőben megadott hivatalos adatok az alábbi tanévre: 2024-2025

Tematika

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.

Előadások

Gyakorlatok

Szemináriumok

• 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

A tananyag elsajátításához szükséges segédanyagok

Kötelező irodalom

Course materials will be available through Teams files.

Saját oktatási anyag

Course materials will be available through Teams files.

Jegyzet

Course materials will be available through Teams files.

Ajánlott irodalom

Course materials will be available through Teams files.

A félév elfogadásának feltételei

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

Félévközi ellenőrzések

Presentation from a chosen topic.

Távolmaradás pótlásának lehetőségei

There is no possibility.

Vizsgakérdések

Course materials will be available through Teams files.

Vizsgáztatók

Gyakorlatok, szemináriumok oktatói

• Laki Beáta