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010025 FS Ethical issues at the End of Our Personal Lives (2015S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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The seminar will be held in English. It is offered as intensive seminar in the framework of the CEEPUS exchange program Bieothics and open for students from different faculties of central European countries. Contributions by guest professors and experts in the context of relevant medical fields will complement the program.
Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 19.01.2015 10:00 to Mo 09.03.2015 10:00
- Deregistration possible until Fr 27.03.2015 23:59
Details
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes
The seminar will normally be held in the Meeting Room at the Dean's Office in the Main Building of the University of Vienna, staircase 8, 2nd floor, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna, from Monday 11th of May till Wednesday 20th of May.
As an exception, on Friday 15th the seminar will take place in the Faculty building in Schenkenstraße 8-10, first floor, seminar room nr. 5.
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
At the end of our personal lives, many ethical questions arise especially in the medical context. These questions cannot be answered without referring to fundamental philosophical and theological issues: What does it existentiallly mean to be dying? How can we understand dying and death philosophically and theologically? Such fundamental and also ethical questions will be discussed theoretically and in the practical context of related institutions that will be visited.
Assessment and permitted materials
- presentation of results
- participation in discussions
- written paper
- participation in discussions
- written paper
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
- knowledge of important philosophical and theological approaches to dying and death
- knowledge of practical contexts of terminally ill persons
- knowledge of ethical arguments in end-of-life decisions
- knowledge of practical contexts of terminally ill persons
- knowledge of ethical arguments in end-of-life decisions
Examination topics
- lectures
- discussion
- reading
- library research
- short presentations
- excursions
- written reflection
- discussion
- reading
- library research
- short presentations
- excursions
- written reflection
Reading list
A Compantion to Bioethics, edited by Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer. Second Edition, Blackwell 2009.
Ethical Challenges of Ageing, edited by Marie-Jo Thiel, Royal Society of Medicine Press 2012.
Human Dignity and Bioethics. Essays commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics. Washington www.bioethics.gov 2008.
Marianne Talbot, Bioethics. An introduction. Cambridge University Press 2012.
Pain and its transformations. The Interface of Biology and Culture, edited by Sarah Coakley and Kay Kaufmamm Shelemay. Harvard University Press 2007.
Darlene Fozard Weaver, chapter 15. Death. In: The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics edited by Gilbert Meilaender and William Werpehowski, Oxford University Press 2005, p. 254-269.
Ethical Challenges of Ageing, edited by Marie-Jo Thiel, Royal Society of Medicine Press 2012.
Human Dignity and Bioethics. Essays commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics. Washington www.bioethics.gov 2008.
Marianne Talbot, Bioethics. An introduction. Cambridge University Press 2012.
Pain and its transformations. The Interface of Biology and Culture, edited by Sarah Coakley and Kay Kaufmamm Shelemay. Harvard University Press 2007.
Darlene Fozard Weaver, chapter 15. Death. In: The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics edited by Gilbert Meilaender and William Werpehowski, Oxford University Press 2005, p. 254-269.
Association in the course directory
LV für Doktorats-/PhD- Studium, für 011 (08W, 11W) D31 oder DAM, 033 195 und 033 193 (11W) sowie neues Lehramt 055 BAM, 066 793 MAM, 066 795 M5, Fächerkontingentseminar 3 oder (freies) Wahlfach f. 011 (02W) und 020
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