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Course code: BBS20247o11Semester: 2011/2012 winter
Name: BIOETHICS
Major: Biology
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 1
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 0 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. Witold Janeczek
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: After completing the course students will know moral consequences of biological revolution, bioethics in genetic, biotechnology and in medicine sciences. Student will know the ethical problems according to reproduction, transplantology, genetic engineering and research sciences. Student will know the forerunners of the modern environmental ethics. Student will know and understand the values in environmental, anthropocentric environmental ethics issues, sustainable development ethics. Biocentric and ecocentric ethics. Student will know the sources of the ethical norms according to animals, the history of the researches on animals and antivivisections movements. Student will know the opinion of the philosophers , scientists and society about the experiments with animals in use. Students will know the bioethics problems in European Union directives and Polish regulations. The bioethical education.
Competences: Students should have the basic bioethical knowledge.
Prerequisites: zoology, botany.
Course content: Ethics thesis. Birth of bioethics. The sources of ethical regulations according to animals. The euthanasia of animals. Ethical problems according to cellular and tissue culture in vitro – inclouding parent cells – transplantology, genetic engineering, transgenetic animals, human genom researches, geotechnology, in vitro inflammation, sperm banks, storing up the embryos. Ethics in animal sciences. Ethics in species protection, natural and environmental protection and intellectual property.
Recommended literature: N. Dower (ed.) 1990. Ethics and Environmental Responsibility. Avebury, Aldershot, Brookfield USA, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney J.D. Jardins 1997. Environmental Ethics. An Introduction to Environmental Philosophy. Wadsworth Pub. Co. L. Kordylewski 1996. Problemy bioetyki. Wyd. Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Skrypty Uczelniane, nr 747. Z. Piątek 1998. Etyka środowiskowa. Nowe spojrzenie na miejsce człowieka w przyrodzie. Wyd. Instytutu Filozofii Uniw. Jagiellońskiego, Kraków H. Skolimowski 1994. Filozofia Żyjąca. Eko-filozofia jako drzewo Życia. Pusty Obłok, Warszawa P.Singer 2007. Etyka Praktyczna. Książka i Wiedza K. Szewczyk 2009. Bioetyka (t. 1,2). PWN Warszawa.
Assessment methods: Completion of written essay about one of the talk over topics during the lectures, minimum 60 % of knowledge to pass.
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