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Bioethics

Code:

MEB12

Sigla:

BIOE

Level:

1

Áreas Científicas
Classificação	Área Científica
OFICIAL	Ciências Biomédicas

Ocorrência: 2023/2024 - 2S

Ativa?	Yes
Unidade Responsável:	Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica
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Ciclos de Estudo/Cursos

Sigla	Nº de Estudantes	Plano de Estudos	Anos Curriculares	Créditos UCN	Créditos ECTS	Horas de Contacto	Horas Totais
MEB	15	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2021	1	-	3	30	81

Língua de trabalho

Portuguese

Objetivos

Understand the bioethical approach and the relation between science, ethics and society.
    Frame biotechnological issues within a bioethical approach.
    Discuss cases and themes, adequately applying bioethical thinking, prevailing theories and argumentative models to the evaluation of concrete situations.
    Develop ethical competence in order to participate in the debate on problems raised by the application of biotechnologies.

Resultados de aprendizagem e competências

Understand the bioethical approach and the relation between science, ethics and society.
    Frame biotechnological issues within a bioethical approach.
    Discuss cases and themes, adequately applying bioethical thinking, prevailing theories and argumentative models to the evaluation of concrete situations.
    Develop ethical competence in order to participate in the debate on problems raised by the application of biotechnologies.

Modo de trabalho

À distância

Pré-requisitos (conhecimentos prévios) e co-requisitos (conhecimentos simultâneos)

NA

Programa

Fundamentals of ethics: Person and human dignity.
    Foundations of bioethics: theories, argumentative models and methods in bioethics.
    Developments in biotechnologies (national and European reports) and the institutionalization of bioethics.Ethics in research.
    Science, ethics and society - general bioethical issues [with beginning of life, end of life, research, experimentation, biotechnological development, human genome, biobanks, nanotechnologies, genetically modified organisms, cyborgs and robotics]. Risk and uncertainty management.
    Bioethical issues in biomedical technology - case analysis and discussion.

Bibliografia Obrigatória

Beck, Ulrich; The Metamorphosis of the World., Polity Press, 2016
Carvalho, Maria da Graça; Neves, Maria do Céu (Orgs).; Investigação Científica. Ética Aplicada Vol. XII, Almedina, 2018
Conselho Nacional de Ética para as Ciências da Vida. ; Nanotecnologias e O.G.M. – Ciência, Ética, Sociedade. , Conselho Nacional de Ética para as Ciências da Vida. , 2011
Kuhse, Elga; Singer, Peter (Eds) ; Bioethics: an antology. , New York John Wiley & Sons, 2015
Neves, Maria do Céu. ; Ética: dos Fundamentos às Práticas. Ética Aplicada. Vol. I. , Almedina, 2016
Veatch, Robert M. ; The Basics of Bioethics. , Routledge, 2016

Métodos de ensino e atividades de aprendizagem

Methodologies that combine exposure and participation, using cases, themes and national and international documents on the subjects under analysis, and may include commentaries on films or documentaries. Pedagogical strategies focus on developing bioethical analysis, from the scope of the course and including a research perspective as well as contact with legislative and normative texts.

Continuous assessment methodology: realization of individual or small group (up to 3 students) essay on theme or case in the scope of the curricular unit.

 Assessment by examination: submission and discussion of individual essay (100%)

Demonstration of coherence

The programmatic contents are developed in order to support the pursuit of learning objectives, especially in the sense of developing critical thinking and analysis capacity of current situations in bioethics.

For the "Understanding the bioethical approach and the relevance of the relation between science, ethics and society" aim, the contents recommended in (1) Foundations of ethics: Person and human dignity, (2) "Foundations of bioethics: Theories, argumentative models and methods in bioethics", and (3) "Bioethics in the field of ethics: Person and human dignity".

For the objective "Framing biotechnological issues in a bioethical approach" concur the contents of (2.) "Fundamentals of bioethics: theories, argumentative models and methods in bioethics." and (4.) "Science, ethics and society - general bioethical questions [with beginning of life, end of life, research, experimentation, biotechnological development, human genome, biobanks, nanotechnologies, genetically modified organisms, cyborgs and robotics] Risk and uncertainty management".

For the objective of "Discuss cases and themes, applying bioethical thought, prevailing theories and argumentative models appropriately to the evaluation of concrete situations", the contents foreseen in (3.) "Biotechnological developments (national and European reports) and the institutionalisation of bioethics. Ethics in research" and (5.) "Bioethical questions in biomedical technology - analysis and discussion of cases".

For the objective of "Developing ethical competence for participating in the debate on the problems raised by the application of biotechnologies", all contents concur.
All professionals working in the health sector are faced with questions, problems and situations that in some way concern the people involved as human beings. Even decisions of a technical nature are taken in the context of situations with relevant ethical dimensions. Specialisation does not exempt us from a holistic, interdisciplinary and pluralist approach to problems involving complex ethical, social and personal issues, in the context of the democratic and plural societies in which we live.

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Tipo de avaliação

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Componentes de Avaliação

Designation	Peso (%)
Participação presencial	0,00
Trabalho escrito	100,00
Total:	100,00

Componentes de Ocupação

Designation	Tempo (Horas)
Estudo autónomo	21,00
Frequência das aulas	30,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Total:	81,00

Obtenção de frequência

NA

Fórmula de cálculo da classificação final

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