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Bioethics committees, case analysis methodologies and health law

Role of Health Care Bioethics Committees, problems and functioning. Research Ethics Committees. National and Autonomous Region Committees. Methodologies for analysing bioethical cases. Analysis of health legislation related to bioethics.

Bioethics in children, the elderly, functional diversity, mental health and the end of life

Care for people in situations of fragility and dependence. Bioethics in Paediatrics. Attitude towards children with functional diversity. Care of the elderly. Mental health. Suffering of patients and relatives at the end of life. Palliative care. Advance directives.

Capabilities approach, development, education, film and bioethics

Capabilities approach and development bioethics. Development education. Moral development. Health education, especially for people with disabilities. Bioethics training. Mind, brain and education. Education of emotions. Training of volunteers. Cinema and bioethics.

Ecological, animal, food and chemical ethics

Philosophy and political ecology, responsibility for future generations, intergenerational justice. Precautionary principle. Ethics of animals. Ethics of food production, distribution and consumption. Promotion of healthy nutrition. Bioethical issues related to chemistry.

Ethics at the beginning of life, ethics of genetics, neurosciences, nanotechnology, sport and human enhancement

Ethical problems at the beginning of life. Bioethics in the face of the new challenges of genetics, neurosciences and nanotechnology. Neuroethics, Neuroeducation, Neurotheology, Neurolaw, Neuropolitics. Nanoethics. Ethics of sport. Ethics of doping. Ethics of human enhancement.

Ethics of humour

Humour as the basis of a new ethical theory applicable to professions, organisations and citizenship. The ethics of humour applied to the health field. Philosophy of humour. Good humour. Intercultural humour. Style of humour and autonomy in decision-making at the end of life.

Health care and clinical research ethics

Ethics in the health professions. Shared decision-making with the patient. Violence in the consultation room. Consultation time. Errors. Informed consent. Capacity. Confidentiality. Quality of life. Ethics of family therapy and mediation. Accountability. Ethics in research.

History and rationale of bioethics

Study of the history of bioethics and analysis of the main ethical theories on which bioethics is based, including: discourse ethics, narrative ethics, critical hermeneutics, feminist ethics, natural law, principles of bioethics, values, virtues and emotions.

Mutual recognition, intercultural and global bioethics

Establishing reciprocal recognition as the core of intercultural and global bioethics. Relational sociology. Global citizenship, cosmopolitanism and deliberative politics. Immigration and bioethics. Reciprocal recognition between health professionals, patients and relatives.

Sustainability of health care, public health and organisational ethics

Ethics in the use of health resources. Sustainability. Equity, efficiency and health quality. Public health. Knowledge and attitudes of the population regarding HIV. Preventive actions in one's own health. Ethics of health organisations. Ethics of pharmaceutical laboratories.