Module PS4620-KP04, PS4620SJ14

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each summer semester

Credit points

4 (Typ B)

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Bachelor Interdisciplinary Courses for health sciences, optional subject, Interdisciplinary modules
• Master Medical Informatics 2019, optional subject, Interdisciplinary modules
• Bachelor MES 2014, optional subject, no specific field
• Master MES 2014, optional subject, no specific field
• Master Medical Informatics 2014, optional subject, Interdisciplinary modules
• Master Interdisciplinary Courses, optional subject, Interdisciplinary modules
• Bachelor Interdisciplinary Courses, optional subject, Interdisciplinary modules

Classes and lectures:

• Ethics in the Life Sciences (seminar, 2 SWS)

Workload:

• 25 hours work on an individual topic with written and oral presentation
• 30 hours in-classroom work
• 65 hours private studies

Contents of teaching:

• Societal and ethical implications of research in biomedical sciences and technologies
• Basics of philosophy and sociology of science
• Good scientific practice
• Basics of bioethics: duties of investigators, obligations to colleagues,
• Ethics of human subjects research and animal experiments, environmental ethics. Governance of technology,risk assessement
• Neuroethics
• Ethics of AI and robotics

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Students can explain the methodology of the physical sciences and technology and their philosophical basis
• They can recognize ethical dimensions of practice and deciding
• They can identify and assess ethical dimensions of action and decision-making in biotechnology and AI
• They can understand relevant laws in Germany
• They can participate in current discussions in bioethics and research ethics
• They can reflect on ethical dimensions of biomedical sciences

Grading through:

• continuous, successful participation in course

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. phil. Christoph Rehmann-Sutter

Teacher:

• Institute for History of Medicine and Science Studies
• Prof. Dr. med. Cornelius Borck
• Prof. Dr. phil. Christoph Rehmann-Sutter
• Prof. Dr. phil. Christina Schües
• Dr. phil. Frank Wörler

Literature:

• Urban Wiesing (Hg.): : Ethik in der Medizin. Ein Studienbuch Stuttgart: Reclam 5. Aufl. 2020
• Ben Mepham : Bioethics. An Introduction for the Biosciences Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008
• Jennifer A. Parks, Victoria S. Wike : Bioethics in a Changing World Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2010

Language:

• offered only in English

Notes:

Last Updated:

02.10.2025