Who is the subject of bioethical choices? How can society manage the challenges of technology applied to human life, in the sense of biological and biographical life? What ethical principles guide our relationship with the environment? The course addresses these questions analysing texts from the Anglo-American tradition of bioethical studies.
Bioethics thus emerges as an interdisciplinary and varied field of study, in constant dialogue with the spheres of law (debate between bioethics and biolaw), politics, sociology and psychology. The ethical perspective makes it possible to trace these different dimensions back to the questions concerning human action and choice, freedom and social co-dependence, the importance of the individual position and the intersubjective relationship. We will also focus on certain framework concepts such as secularisation and distributive justice.

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