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BIOETHICS AND HUMANITIES

Degree course: 
Corso di Long single cycle degree (6 years) in MEDICINE AND SURGERY
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2019/2020
Year: 
1
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2019/2020
Credits: 
3
Period: 
First Semester
Standard lectures hours: 
30
Requirements: 

A good general knowledge acquired by critically reflecting upon media contents and fictional texts (high school level).

Final Examination: 
Orale

To pass the whole scrutiny, the student must pass the two subject-examinations; i.e. the student has to show to have learnt the contents and reached the aims of each discipline/part of the integrated course, that is both bioethics and history of medicine. Both disciplines foresee their own examination in the form of multiple choice written tests. The final individual judgment is expressed in the form: qualified /unqualified. This evaluation comes from the qualitatively pondered average results (discussed by the teaching team).
The test shows the reached level of: 1. theoretical knowledge about the ethical, historical and social dimensions of scientific and technological progress; 2. Medical-humanities abilities and ethics-applying skills in dealing with professional cases, historical-social situations, clinical dilemmas; 3. Logical, interpretative and debating capabilities in rationally defending or criticizing the pros and cons of different and/or conflicting historical/ethical/epistemological options and values.

Assessment: 
Giudizio Finale

For the whole integrated course.
Training the students and fostering their knowledge, understanding and other personal abilities in order to implement a coherent ethical, historical and humanistic reasoning in biomedical, social and educational contexts of health care research, practice and work; promoting personal skills in perceiving a moral dilemma, in justifying an individual evaluation and in dealing with a disagreement inside the staff; improving personal cross-competences (learning, communicating and evaluating virtues) and bettering the aptitude to apply knowledge and understanding in narrative medical ethics; providing an introduction to the foundations of medical western thinking, that will be investigated through Hippocratic-Galenic medicine. Offering cultural tools to respect the human rights of sick persons, both in clinical practice and in the drug experimentation trials. Teaching the principles of an independent scientific information. Helping the students to deal with conflicts of interest in health care settings (taking in account relevant historical events).

For the whole Integrated Course.
The introductory theoretical lessons, given by the teacher, display ethical theories, principles, different historical methods of care, ways of reasoning, logical rules, linguistic ambiguities, different styles of behaviour and controversial cases, with regard to medical history and to the contemporary pluralistic social arena. Students are invited to react, to raise questions and objections, to ask for clarification and deepening, to debate the issues in the class-group, to demand further teaching aids. Historical and fictional narrative texts, especially motion pictures, involve the students in the emotional heart of complex situations, foster the expression of individual insights and feelings, prepare a reflection upon historical contexts, a mature staff discussion and a shared decision.

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