Bioethics

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

- Expository method for presentation of fundamental concepts and nuclear theoretical frameworks.

- Analysis, systematization and interpretation of literature or of individual report

- Collective debate on cases.

Learning Outcomes

To conduct theoretical an empirical research in the areas of  Bioethics

To carry out work and/or projects based on that research that reveals an understanding of the philosophical challenges of Bioethics as Applied Ethics.

Distinguish critically the value and limits the contribution of the authors taught.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Bioethics Origins.

2. Bioethics and philosophical ethics:the hermeneutical problem of application in Ethics.

3. Principialist Bioethics, its diffusion, its maxims and problems.

4. The tragic action and the need for practical wisdom: analysis of individual cases.

5. The narrative turning in Bioethics.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Luísa Portocarrero Ferreira da Silva

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 30.0%
Mini Tests: 30.0%
Research work: 40.0%

Bibliography

A. CORTINA, Ética aplicada y democracia radical, Madad,Tecnos , 2008.

A. CORTINA,, Justicia cordial, Madrid, Trotta, 2010.

D.GRACIA, Fundamentos de Bioética, trad., Coimbra, Gráfica de Coimbra,2008.

M. ETCHVERRIA, Que es la bioética?, Salamanca, ed., Sígueme, 1998.

A. DOMINGO  MORATALLA, Ética y voluntariado.Una solidaridad sin fronteras,Madrid, PPC, 2000.

T. DOMINGO  MORATALLA, Bioética y cine. De la narración a la deliberación,Madrid, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, 2010.

T. DOMINGO  MORATALLA,  LYDIA FEITO GRANDE, Bioética narrativa, Madrid, Ecolar y Mayo. 2013.

G. HOTTOIS, O paradigma bioético, Lisboa, Salamandra, 1992.

G.HOTTOIS, Qu´est-ce que la bioéthique? , Paris, Vrin, 2004.

F.,JAVIER ELIZARI, Questões de  bioética,  trad.,Porto,Ed. Perpétuo Socorro, 1996.

L. FEYTO, GRANDE,  D. GRACIA, M. SANCHEZ (ed), Bioética: el estado de la cuestión, Madrid, Triacastella, 2011

P.RICOEUR, Le juste 2, Paris, Esprit, 2001.