Medicine and ethics cannot be separated. Medical ethics is the study of moral and ethical issues in medicine. The course covers the basic theories of medical ethics, the main international principles of professional and professional ethics, and ethical issues in certain special areas such as fertility and assisted reproduction, death, euthanasia and hospice, the doctor-patient relationship, organ transplantation, and human experimentation.
Overview
Syllabus
- Chapter 1 Introduction to Medical Ethics
- 1.1 Why study medical ethics?
- 1.2 The research object of medical ethics
- 1.3 Cultural diversity- moral disagreements- strategy
- Chapter 2 Basic Theories of Ethics
- 2.1 Overview of basic theories of ethics
- 2.2 Utilitarianism
- 2.3 Deontology
- 2.4 Virtue Ethics
- Chapter 3 Basic Principles and Method of Medical Ethics
- 3.1 Basic Principles of Medical Ethics
- 3.2 Methods of Medical Ethics
- Chapter 4 The Moral Responsibilities of health care professional
- 4.1 Privacy and confidentiality
- 4.2 Truthfulness
- 4.3 Informed consent
- Chapter 5 Ethical Issues of Procreation
- 5.1 Family planning and Eugenics
- 5.2 Assisted Reproduction Technology
- 5.3 Personhood of the embryo and fetus
- 5.4 Ethical consideration and regulation
- Chapter 6 Ethical Issues of Death
- 6.1 Criteria of Death
- 6.2 Euthanasia
- 6.3 Hospice care
- 6.4 Advance care planning and advance directives
- 6.5 Moral conflicts
- Chapter 7 Ethical Issues of Organ Transplantation
- 7.1 Overview of Organ Transplantation
- 7.2 Organ supply
- 7.3 Distributing organs
- Chapter 8 Medical Research on Human subjects
- 8.1 Biomedical research
- 8.2 Lessons from human trials
- 8.3 Criteria for human subjects research
- 8.4 Protection of human subjects- whose responsibility?
Taught by
Linjuan Zheng
