Ethical issues applied to the digital environment [LPHIB305]

Learning outcomes

Understand arguments; express themselves clearly and rigorously; structure their thoughts; reason rigorously; be capable of critical and interdisciplinary thinking

Content

The content of the course changes every year. In 2011-2012, it will focus on the question: "How to conceive integrity today? Medicine has always been concerned with healing. Today, however, it has possibilities to predict pathologies, to personalise interventions and to improve certain human capacities. This development, which is likely to modify fundamental aspects of the human condition, raises numerous ethical and social questions that bioethics and biolaw are addressing. Both bioethics and biolaw are based on principles that are laid down in human rights texts and declarations. Integrity is one of these principles. It is often invoked and given a central place, although its content is hardly explained. How can we understand integrity in the context of the current evolution of medicine? This will be the subject of this year¿s reflection. After clarifying the concept of integrity, examining some of the ethical and legal issues at stake, and discussing the means by which this evolution of medicine is possible, we will reflect on the ethical and social issues at stake.