Social aspects of biotechnology
A.A. 2018/2019
Obiettivi formativi
Provide foundational elements from the main disciplines engaged in the societal appraisal of biotechnology (Science and Technology Studies, Bioethics, Biolaw, Biopolitics. Endow students with key methodological resources to develop their crtitical inquiry of current interwtined developments in biotechnological and societal innovation.
To supply students with the basic concepts in relation to: i) healthcare service demand and supply; ii) the application of microeconomic theory to the market for healthcare goods and services; iii) public intervention in the market for healthcare services; iv) Italy's National Health Service and how it operates; v) efficiency and equity in accessing healthcare services; vi) basics of Health Technology Assessment; vii) fundaments of Accounting
To supply students with the basic concepts in relation to: i) healthcare service demand and supply; ii) the application of microeconomic theory to the market for healthcare goods and services; iii) public intervention in the market for healthcare services; iv) Italy's National Health Service and how it operates; v) efficiency and equity in accessing healthcare services; vi) basics of Health Technology Assessment; vii) fundaments of Accounting
Risultati apprendimento attesi
Broad awareness of the most relevant intersections between biotechnological and societal innovation
Knowledge and hands-on experince with the most relevant methodological toolkit to analytically dissect those intersections Hand-on training on key skills for the rising demand of new professionals at the interface between biotechnology and society, including industry, bioethics committees, regulatory authorities, public engagement NGOs etc.
Knowledge and hands-on experince with the most relevant methodological toolkit to analytically dissect those intersections Hand-on training on key skills for the rising demand of new professionals at the interface between biotechnology and society, including industry, bioethics committees, regulatory authorities, public engagement NGOs etc.
Periodo: Primo trimestre
Modalità di valutazione: Esame
Giudizio di valutazione: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Corso singolo
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Programma e organizzazione didattica
Edizione unica
Responsabile
Periodo
Primo trimestre
Prerequisiti
For Economical politics:
the exam is written and lasts 2 hours. It consists of exercises and demands of theory
For History of medicine:
preparation of a presentation on a case study, in whcih the student (either individually or as part of a team in which her/his contribution is clearly distinguishable) must prove his/her garsp of the field and of the key methodologies used to disnetangle the questions at hand.
Reference texts (along with specific articles and book chapters that will be suggested for each individual lecture)
the exam is written and lasts 2 hours. It consists of exercises and demands of theory
For History of medicine:
preparation of a presentation on a case study, in whcih the student (either individually or as part of a team in which her/his contribution is clearly distinguishable) must prove his/her garsp of the field and of the key methodologies used to disnetangle the questions at hand.
Reference texts (along with specific articles and book chapters that will be suggested for each individual lecture)
Economical politics
Programma
Introduction - Health, healthcare and economic principles;
The concept of efficiency in the allocation of resources and its application to the healthcare sector;
Determinants of health and demand for health: the Grossman model;
Uncertainty and insurance: the problem of adverse selection and moral hazard;
Private goods, public goods and merit goods;
How to govern the healthcare expenditure;
Equity and efficiency in the healthcare sector;
Fundaments of Health Technology Assessment;
The Italian NHS;
Healthcare Systems: different OECD countries' models;
The accounting system in a Hospital; the hospital budget; the use of Diagnoses Related Groups; the contractual model with the separation purchaser/provider of healthcare services.
The concept of efficiency in the allocation of resources and its application to the healthcare sector;
Determinants of health and demand for health: the Grossman model;
Uncertainty and insurance: the problem of adverse selection and moral hazard;
Private goods, public goods and merit goods;
How to govern the healthcare expenditure;
Equity and efficiency in the healthcare sector;
Fundaments of Health Technology Assessment;
The Italian NHS;
Healthcare Systems: different OECD countries' models;
The accounting system in a Hospital; the hospital budget; the use of Diagnoses Related Groups; the contractual model with the separation purchaser/provider of healthcare services.
Materiale di riferimento
Students attending class on a regular basis: detailed material is available online. The text adopted is:
FOLLAND-SHERMAN-ALLEN-C. GOODMAN-MIRON STANO, The Economics of Health and Health Care, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River (4th, 5th or 6th edition).
RECOMMENDED READING:
DRUMMOND ET AL., Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes, Oxford press, last edition
MAPELLI V., Il sistema sanitario italiano, il Mulino, 2012
For other recommended readings, reference should be made to the professors' web sites.
FOLLAND-SHERMAN-ALLEN-C. GOODMAN-MIRON STANO, The Economics of Health and Health Care, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River (4th, 5th or 6th edition).
RECOMMENDED READING:
DRUMMOND ET AL., Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes, Oxford press, last edition
MAPELLI V., Il sistema sanitario italiano, il Mulino, 2012
For other recommended readings, reference should be made to the professors' web sites.
History of medicine
Programma
Bioethics: introduction to the field and its key methodologies;
Science and Technology Studies: introduction to the field and its key methodologies
Biocapital and biolabor: historical antecedents and the landscape of the current bioeconomy
Analysis of exemplary junctures of sociotecnical innovation in and around the life sciences:
1) Assisted reproduction technologies and genome engineering
2) Digitization of living processes and their implication for regenerative and precision medicine
3) Digitization of living processes and their implication for personal data flow and management
4) Digitization of living processes and their implication for synthetic biology
5) The use of animals
6) The governance of scientific research integrity
7) Property rights and the human body
8) Human bioenhancements: policy perspectives
9) Human genetic variation, classification and "race": the biological and social sides of the debate.
Science and Technology Studies: introduction to the field and its key methodologies
Biocapital and biolabor: historical antecedents and the landscape of the current bioeconomy
Analysis of exemplary junctures of sociotecnical innovation in and around the life sciences:
1) Assisted reproduction technologies and genome engineering
2) Digitization of living processes and their implication for regenerative and precision medicine
3) Digitization of living processes and their implication for personal data flow and management
4) Digitization of living processes and their implication for synthetic biology
5) The use of animals
6) The governance of scientific research integrity
7) Property rights and the human body
8) Human bioenhancements: policy perspectives
9) Human genetic variation, classification and "race": the biological and social sides of the debate.
Materiale di riferimento
Nowotny H. and Testa G., Naked Genes. Reinventing the Human in the Molecular Age, MIT Press
Jasanoff, S Designs on nature, Pinceton
Gottweiss, H. Governing Molecules. The discursive Politics of Genetic Engineering in Europe and the United States MIT Press
Jasanoff, S. (Ed.), Reframing Rights. Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age MIT Press
Cooper M and Waldby C Clinical Labor. Tissue Donors and Research Subjects nin the Global Bioeconomy Duke University Press
Jasanoff, S Designs on nature, Pinceton
Gottweiss, H. Governing Molecules. The discursive Politics of Genetic Engineering in Europe and the United States MIT Press
Jasanoff, S. (Ed.), Reframing Rights. Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age MIT Press
Cooper M and Waldby C Clinical Labor. Tissue Donors and Research Subjects nin the Global Bioeconomy Duke University Press
Moduli o unità didattiche
Economical politics
SECS-P/02 - POLITICA ECONOMICA - CFU: 5
Lezioni: 35 ore
Docente:
Brenna Elenka
History of medicine
MED/02 - STORIA DELLA MEDICINA - CFU: 6
Lezioni: 42 ore
Docenti:
Spada Claudio Ugo Maria, Testa Giuseppe
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