Syllabus
Basic terminology, medical ethics healthcare ethics, bioethics, ethical theories, ethical dilemma
Ethical principals in the context of healthcare (respect for autonomy, beneficience, non-maleficience, justice, truth telling, confidentiality)
Patients rights
Quality of life
Dignity, privacy
Excursion to long term care facility, care of patients in irreversible vegetative state, artificial nutrition and hydration
Informed consent, AMA documents, informing the patients about prognosis
Decision making at the end of life, Advance directives, euthanasia
Ethical issues of death and dying ? palliative, terminal, spiritual car
Genetic counseling, assisted reproduction, abortion, neonatology
Organ transplantation, donor issues, transplant tourism
Psychiatric patient ? involuntary hospitalization, dementia and autonomy
Annotation
The subject is taught in the first year of the program Physiotherapy. It acquaints the students with the basic terminology, philosophical background of biomedical ethics, everyday ethical problems, as well as major ethical dilemmas.