Ethics and Health Care: End-of-Life Ethical Issues

About

The program offers professionals, students and early career researchers the opportunity to critically reflect, with the help of highly qualified experts, on topical issues that raise ethical and deontological dilemmas, relating to health care ethics. A fundamental feature of the School concerns its method, which is characterized by a continuous and intense interdisciplinary exchange between doctors, philosophers, economists, jurists, psychiatrists and sociologists.
During this fourth edition, the course will focus on the myriad of ethical issues presented by end-of-life care. These dilemmas often involve deeply personal and culturally sensitive decisions, reflecting the profound significance of death and dying in human life. The purpose of the summer school is to explore several key ethical issues associated with end-of-life care, including social inequalities at the end of life, the role of ethics consultation, the patient’s right to make decisions about their own body and treatment, assisted dying and euthanasia, and ethics of palliative care.

Course leader

Fabrizio Turoldo, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Target group

Professionals in the health care sector, PhD students, post-doc scholars, graduates and undergraduates in medicine, philosophy, political sciences, sociology, social work, economics, statistics. PhD students and researchers will have the opportunity to present their own research in a presentation or a poster session.

Course aim

The course allows students, researchers and professionals from various fields to hone important skills that are located in an interdisciplinary terrain. Professional ethics and deontology are in fact transversal sectors, useful and necessary in the most diverse professional contexts.
Physicians, jurists, philosophers, economists, sociologists and political scientists will have the opportunity to test different perspectives of thought and different theoretical systems in the light of extremely important and current case studies.

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