UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA IN ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE
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Course: Health Ethics

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Course title Health Ethics
Course code UHP/FZETI
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Šimek Jiří, doc. MUDr. CSc.
Course content
Lectures: 1. Ethics and values - concept, content, definition 2. Ethical rules and social norms 3. Ethical and moral aspects in different cultures 4. Ethical rules and moral problems of health care professionals 5. Equality and the right to a dignified existence and health for all 6. Ethical claim of individuals and groups to self-realization 7. Childbirth, life, health, illness and death from an ethical and moral point of view 8. Health as a value 9. Ethical and moral aspects in a multidisciplinary medical team 10. Relationship between legal and ethical norms. Ethics committees 11. Telling the patient the truth, iatropathogenesis, sororigeny, egrotogenia 12. Physiotherapist´s code of ethics 13. Patients' rights. Charter of the Rights of Hospitalized Children 14. Ethics in mental health

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
o understand, assess and evaluate ethical and moral aspects o accept and apply all ethical and moral aspects in a person's health - when they are healthy and in difficult life situations o know the relationship between ethical and legal norms o know the importance of the patient's right to self-determination o know the principles of telling the truth to patients o know the basics of the physiotherapist's code of ethics
o the student is able to assess and evaluate the ethical and moral aspects of the physiotherapist profession o the student knows the ethical principles and rights of patients o the student is familiar with the physiotherapist´s code of ethics
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Recommended literature
  • Beauchamp, T. L. - Childress, J. F. Principles of Biomedical Ethics. New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-19-514332-9.
  • Haškovcová, H. Informovaný souhlas. proč a jak?. Praha: Galén, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7262-497-3.
  • Haškovcová, H. Lékařská etika. Praha: Galén, 2015. ISBN 9788074922046.
  • Haškovcová, H. Práva pacientů - komentované vydání. Havířov: Nakl. A. Krtilové, 1996. ISBN 80-902163-0-7.
  • Haškovcová, H.:. Thanatologie, nauka o umírání a smrti.. Galén, Praha, 2000. ISBN 80-7262-034-4.
  • Munzarová, M. Eutanazie nebo paliativní péče?. Praha: Grada, 2005. ISBN 80-247-1025-0.
  • Munzarová, M. Zdravotnická etika od A do Z. Praha: Grada, 2005. ISBN 80-247-1024-2.
  • SOKOL, J. Člověk jako osoba: filosofická antropologie. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2016. ISBN 978-80-7429-682-6.
  • Sokol, J. Etika, život, instituce. Praha, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7429-223-1.
  • ŠIMEK, J. Lékařská etika. Praha: Grada, 2015. ISBN 978-80-247-5306-5.
  • ŠIMEK, J., ZAMYKALOVÁ, L., MESANYOVÁ, M., SVOBODOVÁ, H. Etika výzkumu a etické komise v České republice.. Praha: Grada, 2011. ISBN 978-80-247-3397-5.
  • Thomasma, D. C. - Kushnerová, T. Od narození do smrti: etické problémy v lékařství. Praha: Mladá fronta, 2000. ISBN 80-204-0883-5.


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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA IN ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE, date of update: 14.06.2025 23:50. Data created for academic year 2025/2026