Learning outcomes

The course will offer to the students the following competences:

-To be clear with some big basic concepts in clinical ethics and research ethics: autonomy, beneficence, justice, etc.

-To know the importance of the development of bioethics in the South.

-To be able to analyse a clinical situation with the methodological tools studied.

Content

The course is composed of three parts.

1. A general introduction to bioethics with the history and the context for the emergence of this discipline.

2. A part dedicated to clinical ethics. Various moral systems underlying the human decisions are first presented. Then, the ethical principles regulating the healthcare practices will be studied. Finally, some ethical decision-making models will be analysed. A great deal of attention will be given to the question of ethics in the South.

3. A part dedicated to human research ethics. Thress regulatory principles for human research will be studied. We will attach peculiar importance to research ethics in the developing countries.

Co-requisites

Pharmacist-patient relationship [MPHAB397]

Teaching methods

Lectures delivered by the professor using PowerPoint presentations. Three additional presentations by two pharmacists on the practical aspects of pharmacy ethics (Charlotte Costenoble, Clarisse Janssens). Students are invited to interact with the professor

Assessment method

Monitored cientific dissertation

Sources, references and any support material

- Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power, University of California Press, 2004. - Ruth Macklin, Double Standards in Medical Research in Developing Countries, Cambridge University Press, 2004. - Tom Beauchamp - James Childress, Les principes de l'éthique biomédicale, Les Belles Lettres, 2008.

Laurent Ravez, Introduction à l'éthique de la santé publique, Sauramps Médical, 2020.

Language of instruction

French