Hafta 2
What is bioethics? • Introduction to ethics and bioethics. • How to understand that an ethical conclusion is valid. • Consequentialism • What are the levels at which ethical decisions are made?
Hafta 3
Patient Autonomy and Provider Autonomy • What is autonomy and medical paternalism? (…) • When is informed consent necessary? (…) • Truth-telling (n/a) • Can a patient refuse the life-saving treatment? (…) • What are the obligations of providers? (…) • Conscientious objection & Complicity (…)
Hafta 4
Human Experimentation: Ethical Concerns • History of Human experimentation (…) • Why do we need human experimentation? (…) • Is there any alternative human experimentation? (…) • What are the regulations? (…) • How much should we informed regarding the experimentation that will go on our body and/or on our samples? (…) • How are the clinical trials conducted? (…)
Hafta 5
Human Genetics: Genetic Information and Genetic Enhancement • What is genetic information? Who can extract the genetic information? How the samples are collected and protected? (…) • How can the genetic information be used today? (…) • Can the genetic information be patented? Should the genetic information be publicly available? (…) • What is genetic enhancement? What are the techniques of Human enhancement? Why may we need to enhance human genetics? (…) • Can GATTACA become real? Is creation of new class of society likely? (…) • What are the regulations on human enhancement? (…)
Hafta 7
Starting and Ending Human Life: Ethical Concerns • What is assisted reproduction technology? (…) • Do people have right to consider collaborative reproduction? Would you donate your gamete? (…) • What is parenthood? Is surrogacy ethical? (…) • Is it my body and my decision? (Autonomy and Medical Paternalism) Restrictive and permissive views of abortion. (…) • Dealing with death: Euthanasia and related issues. (…)
Hafta 8
Organ Donation and Human Cloning • What is God Committee? Who determines the organ waiting list? Organ donation and waiting list regulations in Turkey (…) • Organ transplantation criteria and other regulations about autonomy (…) • Ethical issues regarding the organ donation (…) • Would You Donate Your Organs? Why should you do? (…) • Is human cloning ethical? (…)
Hafta 9
Animal Experimentation: Ethical Concerns • Why do we need animal experimentation? (…) • What are the regulations of animal experiments? (…) • Is there any alternative to animal experimentation? (…) • What is animal cloning? What is the history of animal cloning? What are the uses of animal cloning? (…) • Can and should we save extinct species? (…) • How are the other uses of animals (hunting, pets, food) is justified relative to scientific experiments? (…)
Hafta 10
Mentoring in Academia • How to manage a research group? How not to manage a research group? (…) • What are the responsibilities of a mentor? ((…) • What are the responsibilities of mentee? (…) • What to do in case of a conflict? (…) • What is Wokeism? How wokeism will shape the future of science? (…) • Is graduate student unionization possible? (…)
Hafta 11
Research Budget Allocation • What are the expectations of tax-payers? What are the expectations of funders? (…) • What are the expectations of scientists? ((…) • Do we really need to know if there is/was life on Mars? And other similar examples ((…) • Who does decide where the money goes? (…) • What are the regulations on how the money is spent? (…) • What is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion? How and why it will affect the future of science? (…)
Hafta 12
Second mid-term / Scientific Authorship • Who is the first, who is the middle, who is the last? (…) • How to weigh the contribution in a given project? (…) • What is collaboration? Why shall scientists collaborate? How to manage collaboration? (…) • Notorious examples of predatory publishing and conferences (…) • How to differentiate good publishers/conferences from predatory ones? (…)
Hafta 13
Scientific Misconduct What are the examples of scientific misconducts? (…) • What are the reasons that push scientist to commit a scientific misconduct? (…) • How to prevent scientific misconduct in the first place? (…) • What are the sanctions against scientific misconduct? (…)
Hafta 14
Environmental Concerns – Global Warming, GMOs • What is GMO? What are the techniques of GMO production? (…) • Is it healthy to consume GMO. What are the regulations? What are the environmental concerns regarding GMO? (…) • What are the GMOs in use? (…) • Who is under threat of global warming? (…) • What are the models of responsibility in environment friendly/sustainable life/economies? (…) • What are the costs and benefits (for environment friendly lifestyle)? What can individuals do? (…)