Ethics and Health Care: End of Life from a Global and Multicultural Perspective

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.

The questions that will be at the center of this fifth edition of the Summer School will be the following: 1) How do different cultures, traditions, and societies understand end of life? 2) What ethical, medical, and spiritual frameworks shape the way we care for people in their final stages? This Summer School offers a unique opportunity to explore end-of-life issues through a global and multicultural lens. Participants will engage with leading scholars, clinicians, and ethicists to examine diverse approaches to dying, death, and bereavement, across continents and traditions

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; candidates who wish to present their research can include the request either on the application form or submit it following selection

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.

Philosophers, physicians, nurses, anthropologists, theologians, experts of religious thought, 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. Healthcare professionals will be able to reflect on the various implications that their decisions entail and which often go beyond the strictly sanitary sphere

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