Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)

Course Description Status: Approved

Course Description Version: 24/25.P.1.00

Description Period: 2024./25 academic year pavasara semestris

Study Course Accepted: -

Study Course Description

Philosophy and Medical Ethics

Main Study Course Information

Course Code
LUSDK_036
Branch of Science
Ethics; Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Medical Services; Nursing Science
LQF
Level 6
Study Type And Form
Full-Time; Part-Time

Study Course Implementer

Course Supervisor
Reinis Vilciņš
Structure Unit Manager
Liāna Deklava
Structural Unit
Department of Rehabilitation
Contacts

Riga, 26a Anninmuizas boulevard, socdk@rsu.lv, +371 67061575

About Study Course

Objective

Course objective is to introduce students to the basic princples of medical ethics and its underlying philosophical and ethical assumptions.

Preliminary Knowledge

Not required.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

1.-

Skills

1.-

Competences

1.-

Assessment

Individual work

Title
% from total grade
Grade
1.
Individual work
-
-

Examination

Title
% from total grade
Grade
1.
Examination
-
-

Study Course Theme Plan

FULL-TIME
Part 1

  1. Philosophy and argumentation

EventType
Modality
Location
Contact hours
1.
Lecture
On site
Auditorium
2
2.
Class/Seminar
On site
Auditorium
2

  1. Philosophy of science

EventType
Modality
Location
Contact hours
1.
Lecture
On site
Auditorium
2
2.
Class/Seminar
On site
Auditorium
2

  1. Self and free will

EventType
Modality
Location
Contact hours
1.
Class/Seminar
On site
Auditorium
2
2.
Class/Seminar
On site
Auditorium
2

  1. Ethics and moral reasoning

EventType
Modality
Location
Contact hours
1.
Lecture
On site
Auditorium
2
2.
Class/Seminar
On site
Auditorium
2

  1. Consequentialist ethics and duty-based ethics

EventType
Modality
Location
Contact hours
1.
Lecture
On site
Auditorium
2
2.
Class/Seminar
On site
Auditorium
2
3.
Class/Seminar
On site
Auditorium
2

  1. Virtue ethics, Natural Law, and Human Rights

EventType
Modality
Location
Contact hours
1.
Lecture
On site
Auditorium
2
2.
Class/Seminar
On site
Auditorium
2

  1. Medical ethics and its main contemporary issues

EventType
Modality
Location
Contact hours
1.
Lecture
On site
Auditorium
2
2.
Class/Seminar
On site
Auditorium
2
3.
Class/Seminar
On site
Auditorium
2
Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
32 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam
PART-TIME
Part 1

  1. Philosophy and argumentation

EventType
Modality
Location
Contact hours
1.
Lecture
On site
Auditorium
2
2.
Class/Seminar
On site
Auditorium
2

  1. Self and free will

EventType
Modality
Location
Contact hours
1.
Lecture
On site
Auditorium
2
2.
Class/Seminar
On site
Auditorium
2

  1. Ethics and moral reasoning

EventType
Modality
Location
Contact hours
1.
Lecture
On site
Auditorium
2
2.
Class/Seminar
On site
Auditorium
2

  1. Consequentialist ethics and duty-based ethics

EventType
Modality
Location
Contact hours
1.
Lecture
On site
Auditorium
2
2.
Class/Seminar
On site
Auditorium
2

  1. Virtue ethics, Natural Law, and Human Rights

EventType
Modality
Location
Contact hours
1.
Lecture
On site
Auditorium
2
2.
Class/Seminar
On site
Auditorium
2

  1. Medical ethics and its main contemporary issues

EventType
Modality
Location
Contact hours
1.
Lecture
On site
Auditorium
2
2.
Class/Seminar
On site
Auditorium
2
Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
24 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam

Bibliography

Required Reading

1.

Dekarts, R. Meditācijas par pirmo filozofiju. Tulk. A. Rītups. Rīga: Liepnieks & Rītups, 2008. 40.-81. lpp.

2.

Hume, D. A Treatise on Human Nature. Bk. III, pt. 1, sec. 1.

3.

Irbe, A. Par kādu šķirkli Nacionālajā enciklopēdijā

4.

Kants, I. Tikumu metafizikas pamatojums. Tulk. R. Kūlis. Rīga: Zinātne, 2020.

5.

Konvencija par cilvēktiesību un cieņas aizsardzību bioloģijā un medicīnā - Konvencija par cilvēktiesībam un biomedicīnu (Ovjedo, 04.04.1997.)

6.

Mill, J. S. Utilitarianism. 1861

7.

Neiders, I. Ārsta asistēta nāve [šķirklis]

8.

UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948

9.

UNESCO. Casebook on Benefit and Harm, Bioethics Core Curriculum Casebook Series, No. 2, Paris: UNESCO, 2011.

10.

UNESCO. Casebook on Human Dignty and Human Rights, Bioethics Core Curriculum Casebook Series, No. 1, Paris: UNESCO, 2011.

11.

Viljamss, Dž. R. Medicīnas ētikas rokasgrāmata. Rīga: Latvijas ārstu biedrība, 2009.

12.

Vorbertons, N. Filozofijas pamati. Rīga: Raka, 2001 [1999]. 88.-99. lpp.

Additional Reading

1.

Biomedicīnas ētika: teorija un prakse. Rīga: RSU, 2006.

2.

MacKinnon, B., Fiala, A. Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues. Cengage Learning, 2014.

Other Information Sources

1.

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy /ed. by J. Fieser, B. Dowden

2.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [database] /ed. by E. N. Zalta