Human Genetics and Medical Technology
Course coordinators: Evert van Leeuwen and Simone van der Burg
This course focusses on the moral problems generated by the research and development and application of new knowledge in a range of emerging fields such as tissue engineering and genomics. The implications give rise to new images of the human being and shifts common understanding of health and disease. Furthermore, the relation between technology and (medical) ethics will be studied.
The key-note lecture will be held by Insoo Hyun PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Bioethics and Director of the CWRU Stem Cell Ethics Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA.
During the lectures, students will be introduced to basic philosophical and ethical concepts. There will be ample time for questions and debate. Small group discussions and working groups are devoted to in-depth discussions of different cases and particular contemporary issues in the area of human genetics and medical technologies. Participants are expressly invited to supply cases from their own work and experience for discussion during the course.
This intensive course will deal with topics such as screening and testing from clinical perspective, Health Technology Assessment, translational medicine and autonomy in diagnostic technology, and autonomy according to patients. The course is of interest to professionals from areas such as physicians and nurses, other health care professionals, bioethics committee members, professionals working in the pharmaceutical industry, professionals in the areas of ethics, philosophy and theology, and PhD students undertaking courses of study in any of these areas.
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