生醫與科技之倫理與法律問題
Legal and Ethical Issues in Biomedicine and Technology
Chang-fa Lo
Syllabus
1. Introduction of the Course and Clarification of the Meaning of Ethics and Applied Ethics
2. Traditional Medical Ethics and Legal Aspects
(1) The Principles
(2) Patient/Physician relations and Informed Consent Requirement
(3) Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and Their Ethical and Legal Issues
(4) Surrogate Motherhood, Assisted Reproduction and Their Ethical and Legal Issues
(5) Abortion and Its Ethical and Legal Issues
(6) Organ Transplantation and Its Ethical and Legal issues
3. Biotechnology and Its Ethical and Legal Issues
(1) Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cell Research
(2) Gene Detection and Gen Therapy
(3) Biomedicine, Human Trial and Their Ethical and Legal Issues
(4) New Dimension of Informed Consent
4. International Instruments
(1) Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights of 1997
(2) International Declaration on Human Genetic Data of 2003
(3) Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights of 2005
5. Other Technologies and Their Ethical and Legal Issues
(1) Wireless Communication Technology
(2) Nanotechnology
6. Dispute Resolution and Institutional Arrangement
7. Broader Perspectives of Ethics
(1) Distribution of Resources and Social Justices
(2) Environmental Ethics
8. The Convergence of Law and Ethics in Bio and Other Technologies