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Ethics

Code 10850
Year 1
Semester S1
ECTS Credits 6
Workload TP(60H)
Scientific area Biomedical Sciences
Mode of delivery Face-to-face
Work placements Not applicable.
Learning outcomes 1. Promote a culture of integrity and transparency in scientific research.
2. To know the legal framework and ethical bases of biomedical research.
3. Develop the interests and capacities of students to a plural debate about the ethical problems of biomedical research.
4. The student must understand the importance of integrity and transparency in scientific research.
5. Know the legal framework and ethical bases of biomedical research, in a way that he can apply it in the exercise of his professional activity.
6. Develop the interests and capacities of students to areas health related and for a plural debate about the ethical problems of biomedical research, clinical practice and health policy.
Syllabus 1. Theoretical Notions about Moral and Ethics
2. History of ethics and professional ethics
3. The approach of ethical problems
4. Health and human rights
5. The ethical reflection of epistemological issues
6. Human rights and biomedical research
7. Animal Research
8. Ethical and unethical in scientific writing and communication
9. Transparency in Health
10. Transparency in research
11. Ethics and health professions education
Main Bibliography 1. Pina, J. A. Esperança (2013). Ética, Deontologia e Direito Médico. Lisboa: Lidel, Edições Técnicas.
2. Declaração de Helsínquia, versão 2008.
3. Singer, Peter; Viens, A. M. (2008). Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4. Steinbock, Bonnie (2007). Oxford Handbook of Bioethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2012-09-05

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