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EMDM XII edition - module 8
Module 8. Legal and Ethical Aspects of Disaster Medicine
(S. Sterckx – K. Koenig)
Credit units: 3
Competences
Acquire knowledge of the legal, ethical and moral aspects of disaster medicine.
Take a position in any given situation, being aware at the same time of his/her degree of freedom from the legal, ethical and moral points of view.
Previous knowledge
The content of the programme unit on bioethics of the respective master programs.
Teachers
General introduction to legal, ethical and moral aspects of disaster medicine (TBD)
Legal aspects of disaster and humanitarian assistance (M. Debacker)
Ethical aspects of disaster medicine (K. Koenig, TBD)
Moral aspects of disaster medicine (K. Koenig, TBD)
Study material
The website of the master (www.dismedmaster.com) provides the students with the core content and "need to read" material. Exercises, executed individually or in group, at the website of the master or during the live-in course.
Mode of assessment
Test at the end of the module and final examination at the website of the master.
Objectives
Legal and Ethical Aspects of Disaster
Understand the difference between the legal (based on public consensus, or imposed by the authorities), the moral (based on religious rules deduced from instructions given by a transcendent authority), and the ethical approach (based on the individual perception of the value of the ethical issues at stake), to decision making in disaster situations.
Explain international legal and regulatory issues related to disasters and complex humanitarian emergencies.
Analyze concrete examples of ethical questions through general ethical reasoning, based on the weight of the values to be preserved in the decision making process.
Analyze concrete examples of ethical questions through the application of the moral rules, imposed by different religions.
The content could be amended or modified due to revision by the Organising Universities
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