Bioethics

The bioethics course aims to provide an introduction to bioethics, with particular attention to the main questions related to the ethics of the scientific and clinical research, especially in the pharmaceutical and the biotechnological fields and of the public ethics with the intent to promote the debate about the risks and goals associated to the applications of present chemical and biotechnological research. In addition, the important role of the work by graduated in CTF in the modern society will be outlined.

The bioethics course will provide the basic knowledge, the field of application, and the main problems related to clinical and research ethics. The students will learn how to critically judge and comment of bioethical issues. At the end of the course the student will be able to understand the debate on bioethics applied to the biotechnology sector.