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Catholic Faculty of Theology in Đakovo
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Department or Chair within the Faculty / Chair of Moral TheologyStudy program / Philosophy and Theology
Study level / 1st and 2nd cycle (integrated)
Course title / Moral-bioethical diagnosis of modernbiomedicine
Course code / -
Language of instruction / English/Italian
Course description / In contemporary time of modern biomedicine advancement, it is very difficult to be an employee in the health care field, and specially to retain highly moral bioethical principles. Due to the constant biotechnological progress in medicine, many value oriented dilemmas are raising. Those interrogations are necessarily connected with the questions of ethics, morals, well-being, usefulness, or noxiousness during the medical procedure.
In our epoch of unrestrained progress of biomedical sciences, the ranges and the opportunities, assisted by the contemporary biotechnology, are promising influence on many spheres of human life. Biomedicine has reached high level of cognition, technical efficiency, prevention and rehabilitation. But, frequently without any limitations in achievement of scientific cognition. It seems that the guiding principle is to obtain the results „on every price“, disregard the traditional high ideals of medicine.
Ignoring the universal ethical norms, or reducing them on moral-minimalistic tendencies, biomedicine has been prevailed by techno-scientifically aspiration for absolute biological control.
Guided by the deniable improvements of biotechnological appetites in sanitary prosperity, the contemporary biomedicine, in its global vision, is progressively losing the sensibility for the integral sight on a person, reducing human being exclusively on its quantitatively-materialistic-organic dimension. By this reductionist admission, the life is subdue to the object, consign to the arbitrariness and manipulative property.
Consequently, numerous anomalies appears: affairs and collateral effects on degradation of medical profession; fragmented specialization; commercialization of health services; partialization of human being; dehumanization of medical approach; the lack of confidence in medical-patient alliance; the selective offer of medical health services; the conflict in understanding of clinical quality against inviolability, sanctity and the dignity of every human life, independent of precede conditions of his marginal existence.
These are the main reasons why the health care is entering in common: moral, economic and human crises. In the same time, medical operators are experiencing the discrepancy between their expert medical jurisdiction in the questions of protection, defense and preservation of health and life, as also by their personal ethical-moral competence in the judgments of capability and technological potency on those fields, which has been visibly deprived from the ethical sensibility.
Progress in the medical field and scientific thirst for achievements without moral and ethical questions, is a great challenge to the moral theology and to the bioethics. It forces us to study urgently possible biomedical dilemmas, courageously come out with normative judgments, and provide arguments that medicine progress should stay within the borders of ethical – and moral norms originally and historically designed and directed.
In order that certain profession function: bio/ethically properly and correctly, it is not enough that one possess only: expertise and scientific competency respecting deontological codex. For the good biomedical procedure it is very important to develop personal ethical orientation as well as humanistic values which will affect the quality of physicians’ work.
Due to the symbiosis of moral and biomedicine, philosophy and biology, theological-ethical principles and medicine deontology, it is an imperative to point out the new bioethical criteria. For the good of the society and humans future, the role of the new bioethical criteria is to make sure to preserve the absolute value, inviolability and dignity of life, toward every challenge imposed by the modern medical progress. Only in this integrative bioethical unification, biomedicine has a chance to maintain her traditional understanding as an “ars sacra”.
Form of teaching / Lectures, open discussions, presentation of valuable multimedia materials
Form of assessment / Oral examand written scientific work
Number of ECTS / 2 ECTS
Class hours per week / 1 hour weekly
Minimum number of students / Minimum numbers for activation of Course are: 5 students (and more)
Period of realization / Summer semester
Lecturer / Doc.dr.sc. Suzana Vuletić