Professional Ethics and Deontology
Objectives
To know the fundamental concepts dealing with human action, the constituting elements of moral life, the axial structures of moral conscience and the main contemporary ethics theories.
To identify moral dilemmas, specifically those more prevalent in the professional exercise of the nutritionist when providing health care and scientific research.
To develop a process of deliberation and decision making that, putting into practice the acquired theoretical knowledge, promotes the best solution on a technical perspective and in compliance with the best ethical practices.
To form moral conscience of professional practice.
General characterization
Code
41038
Credits
3
Responsible teacher
Prof.ª Doutora Conceição Calhau
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - Available soon
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Not applicable
Bibliography
Books
Archer, L., Biscaia, J., Osswald, W., Bioética, Editorial Verbo, 1996.
Beauchamp, T.L., Childress, J.F, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1994
Brito, J. H. Silveira de, coord., Ética das Profissões, Publicações da Faculdade de Filosofia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Braga, 2007.
Canto-Sperber, M. (dir.), Dictionnaire d'éthique et de philosophie morale, Paris, P.U.F., 1996.
Durand, G., Introdução Geral à Bioética, S. Paulo, São Camilo/Edições Loyola, 2003
Hottois, Gilbert e Missa, Jean-Noël, Nova Enciclopédia de Bioética, Lisboa, Instituto Piaget, 2003.
Patrão Neves, M., Osswald, W., (coord.s), Bioética Simples, Lisboa, Verbo/Babel, 2014
M. Patrão Neves. O Admirável Horizonte da BioÉtica. Lisboa, Fundação Luso-Americana para o desenvolvimento e Editora Glaciar, 2016
M. Patrão Neves; Walter Osswald. Bioética Simples. 2ª edição revista e atualizada, Lisboa, Verbo/Babel, 2014
Websites
Ordem dos Nutricionistas - www.ordemdosnutricionistas.pt
Conselho Nacional de Ética para as Ciências da Vida - www.cnecv.gov.pt
International Bioethics Committee - https://en.unesco.org/themes/ethics-science-and-technology/ibc
Centro de Estudos de Bioética - https://cebioetica.pt/
Associação Portuguesa de Bioética - www.apbioetica.org
Teaching method
Expositive. Presentation of cases and problem solving.
Evaluation method
Individual work (30%), group work (30%) over the classes, and exam (40%).
Subject matter
Fundamental concepts dealing with human action: ethics, moral, law, professional ethics (codes of professional ethics) and applied ethics (from the professional to the patient).
Elements constituting moral life: principles, norms, virtues, rights and duties.
Introduction to the concept of narrative ethics.
Main Contemporary Ethics theories: principlism, utilitarianism and consequentialism, communitarianism and contract contractualism, discussion.
The institutionalization of bioethics: national and international contexts.
Deontological fundamentals of the nutritionist profession.
Ethics in research and scientific integrity.
The ethics of nutritional intervention in Public Health: precautionary principle.
The ethical dimension in the formation and performance of a Nutritionist. Technical responsibility of a Nutritionist in different scenarios of professional practice.
Main ethical issues in food and nutrition sciences.
Privacy and confidentiality: main rules about personal data and health data (General Data Protection Regulation)