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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Health Sciences |
| Mestrado Universitario en Asistencia e Investigación Sanitaria (plan 2012) |
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| Ethical and Legal Research in Health Sciences |
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| Identifying Data | 2020/21 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Ethical and Legal Research in Health Sciences | Code | 653862203 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Official Master's Degree | 1st four-month period |
First | Optional | 3 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| Lesson 1. Ethics and Law | 1. Why do we need norms? Types of norms and normative systems 2. Why do we need Law? 3. Why do we need virtues? Three models of normative ethics 4. Bioethics and the ethics of research |
| Lesson 2. Responsible research | 1. Research as a practice 2. Facts and values. Is everything technically possible also ethically admissible? 3. The research imperative. Is there a (moral) duty to research? Is there an obligation to participate in research? 4. The freedom of research. Freedom of research as a basic right 5. Research misconduct |
| Lesson 3. Research on human beings and with human origin materials | 1. What is biomedical research? Basic concepts and types of research with human beings and human origin materials 2. History of the ethics of biomedical research 3. Ethical requirements fo biomedical research 4. Legal regulation of biomedical research 5. Controversial issues. Research involving vulnerable subjects. Human embryo research. Genetic research. Posthuman research. Neuroscience |
| Lesson 4. Animal research | 1. The case for animal research 2. Ethical positions concerning research with animals 3. Is licit the research involving animals? Ethical arguments. Scientific arguments 4. Legal regulation of animal research |
| Lesson 5. Research with biological agents and genetically modified organisms | 1. Research, environment, and responsability 2. Biosecurity and laboratory good practices 3. Biotechnology and moral restraints. The precautionary principle 4. Legal regulation of research with biological agents (BA) and genetically modified organisms (GMO) |
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