Course: Law and sanitary ethic

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Course title Law and sanitary ethic
Course code KOS/C430
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Ročková Jitka, Mgr. DiS.
Course content
Law and public health concept of law, formation of legal standards, relation of medicine and law. Legal problems of modern medicine - problems of human reproduction, taking of blood and organs, problems of resuscitation, experimental medicine. Occupational safety and health, labour law problems. Criminal law (failure to provide first aid, bodily harm caused by negligence, murder, euthanasia, threaten by sexual disease, illegal abortion). Ethics and Health - definitions and characteristics of basic concepts, historical background of ethical issues. Basic ethical codes of medics. Ethical issues of selected medical fields.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
Learning outcomes
The aim of this course is forming of character, intellectual and professional qualities necessary for profession in public health. This course contributes to creation of correct approach to oneself, other people and whole society. Law and legislation provide comprehensive overview of conditions for creation of several responsibility relations in health service.
Student can explain basic philosophic terms, orientates in philosophic and ethical problems related to his profession. Student orientates in basic questions of legal problems.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Didactic test

Oral exam. The fulfillment of compulsory 80% attendance at lectures, exercises and seminars.
Recommended literature
  • Konsenzuální stanovisko k poskytování paliativní péče u nemocných s nezvratným orgánovým selháním. Černý V. (ed.). Anesteziologie a intenzivní medicína; 20(4): 64-68., 2009.
  • Listina základních práv a svobod - č. 2/1993 Sb. (ústavní zákon).
  • Občanský zákoník č. 89/2012 Sb.
  • The Hastings Center´s Bioethics Briefing Book. (dostupné z http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Publications/BriefingBook/.
  • Trestní zákon č. 40/2009 Sb.
  • Úmluva o lidských právech a biomedicíně - č. 96/2001 Sb. mezinárodních smluv.
  • Zákon o specifických zdravotních službách č. 373/2011 Sb.
  • Zákon o zdravotnické záchranné službě č. 374/2011 Sb.
  • Zákon o zdravotních službách č.372/2011Sb.
  • Zákoník práce č. 262/2006 Sb.
  • MUNZAROVÁ, M. Eutanazie, nebo paliativní péče?. Praha: Grada, 2005.
  • MUNZAROVÁ, M. Vybrané kapitoly z lékařské etiky I.- IV. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2000.
  • PAYNE, J. Kvalita života a zdraví. Praha: Triton, 2005.
  • PTÁČEK, R., P. BARTŮNĚK a kol. Etické problémy medicíny na prahu 21. století. Praha: Grada, 2014.
  • VÁCHA, M. Základy moderní lékařské etiky. Praha: Portál, 2012.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Chemical Technology Study plan (Version): Laboratory Assistant (2016) Category: Health service 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Chemical Technology Study plan (Version): Laboratory Assistant (2015) Category: Health service 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter