Description
This course is intended to serve as a broad introduction to the field of bioethics:
- Leading students to ask themselves the crucial questions on the nature of the relationship between techno-science, bioethics and society, nowadays;
- Leading students to think about their future work as scientific professionals and about their rights and duties as citizens
- Increasing the student’s capacity of decision and adjustment in a changing world.
Specific capabilities to be developed:
To understand and master the fundamental concepts of Bioethics, this specialized and cross-disciplinary knowledge spanning ethics, law, society, culture, public policy, philosophy, religion, economics, history, and even language, for the analysis of the interrelationship between biosciences, biotechnology and society.
General capabilities to be implemented:
1. To understand the dynamics of the relationship between science, technology and society, in different geographic an geopolitical contexts, at a global scale;
2. To develop the sense of ethics and social responsibility;
To relate professional practice with the active citizenship.