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ETHI-B500

Ethique de la recherche

academic year
2024-2025

Course teacher(s)

Pierre-Frédéric DALED (Coordinator)

ECTS credits

5

Language(s) of instruction

french

Course content

Ethical concepts and principles (autonomy, consent, free will, incapacity, vulnerability…) brought into play by, amongst other things, therapy orientated human experimentation, self-experimentation, experimentation on the brain and embryo, eugenics and private eugenics, psychopharmacology. Ethical concepts and principles (animal rights, the principle of the 3 R's, speciesism, ecocentrism, biocentrism…) brought into play by, amongst other things, transgenesis and animal transgenesis, animal experimentation and vivisection, ecoterrorism.

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

Initiation to the ethical standards of research through an historical and critical presentation of the ethical questions raised by human, animal and environmental experimentation and by research in human sciences.

Prerequisites and Corequisites

Cours co-requis

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures

References, bibliography, and recommended reading

None.

Other information

Contacts

Pierre F. Daled Département de philosophie, d'éthique et de sciences des religions CRIB – cp 175/01 +32.2. 650.26.28 (secrétariat CRIB) pfdaled@ulb.ac.be

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

  • Oral examination

Oral examination

Oral examination.

Mark calculation method (including weighting of intermediary marks)

Evaluation of the restitution of knowledge by the student (s).

Language(s) of evaluation

  • french

Programmes