Studying at the IBMB
An interdisciplinary program for all levels of education
At the IBMB, doctoral degrees in Bioethics (Faculty of Science) and Biomedical Ethics (Medical Faculty) can be obtained as part of our PhD program. We offer several courses each semester tailored to the needs of our doctoral students and other interested individuals, such as research methodology courses in empirical ethics.
Additionally, students from all disciplines have the opportunity to earn a Certificate in Applied Ethics and participate in many courses that are taught as part of these two educational programs.
A variety of courses are also open to the public, including the twice-yearly “Contemporary Issues in Bioethics” lecture series that integrates a lively dialogue with visiting speakers.
Courses & Seminars
72504-01 - Seminar: Contemporary Debates in Bioethics: Reproductive ethics 2 KP
Semester | Herbstsemester 2024 |
Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
Dozierende | Bernice Simone Elger b.elger@clutterunibas.ch (BeurteilerIn) |
Inhalt | Human Reproduction is a field which has undergone fundamental changes in the last decades due to both technological developments in the field of medically assisted reproduction (MAR) and to socio-cultural changes and beliefs of what makes a family. MAR still undergoes constant changes, with new developments and technological advances frequently arising. These generate both great opportunities (e.g. In-Vitro-Fertilization has permitted many infertile parents to have children), but also ethical dilemmas connected to them. The latter are particularly vast, stretching from questions surrounding abortion and the moral status of a fetus, the availability of surrogate parenthood and social egg freezing, to parental rights and responsibilities when it comes to the child(ren) in question. To explore these ethical dilemmas and how they might be answered to, we will hear from some of the leading experts in the field. We will learn how reproduction has come to be such a technologically developed field, what moral doubts these have created, and what impacts these have both in Switzerland and abroad. |
Lernziele | The goal of the lecture is for students to learn about, understand and to reflect on several of the contemporary ethical and practical issues related to human reproduction and its (technological) evolution, both in Switzerland and globally. |
Bemerkungen | From 12.15 to 13.45 im USB Gebäude B, Hörsaal 1 |
Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
Module | Aufbaumodul (Teil C) (Transfakultäre Querschnittsprogramme im freien Kreditpunkte-Bereich) |
Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | The lecture is graded as “pass” or “fail”.
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- FS 2024 - Animal Research Ethics and the 3R
- HS 2023 - Racism in Medicine and Research
- FS 2023 - Ethical Considerations surrounding pregnancy and childbirth
- HS2022 - Clinical Ethics
- FS 2022 - Diversifying the voices of AI in Healthcare
- FS 2021 - Ethics of (Emerging) Reproductive Technologies
- HS 2020 - Ethical Issues of the Covid-19 Pandemic
- HS 2019 - Informal caregiving at the end of life
- HS 2018 - Smarter Healthcare
- FS 2018 - Ethics of Genetic Testing
- HS 2017 - Ethical and Legal Regulation of Big Data Research
- FS 2017 - Neuroethics
The Transdisciplinary Program Applied Ethics
Students from all faculties can acquire a certificate of applied ethics. The course is primarily offered in the open credit point range of Bachelor's and Master's degree programs.
The PhD Program
Our PhD program aims to contribute towards shaping a future generation of (bio)ethicists who will be highly efficient and reliable in providing expert advice on the unavoidable and manifold ethical issues that arise with advances in medicine, the life sciences and society.
With the advancement of medicine and biotechnology and the continuous challenges they keep posing to society, the field of bioethics continues to evolve and grow. There is increasing demands for bioethics expertise in clinical and research ethics committees, in national ethics committees as well as in various health-related organizations in the public and private sectors.
Funding agencies worldwide (e.g. European Commission, Genome Canada, US government funds) routinely require the integration of an ethics component in scientific projects, in order to identify (and, if possible, to prevent or minimize) adverse consequences of biotechnology and to increase the credibility and transparency of biomedical scientific projects. In addition, ethical expertise is becoming a regular requirement for researchers in different scientific areas. Therefore, our graduates can not only opt for an academic career in bioethics, but also contribute their acquired expertise in ethics committees and other ethics related regulatory fields, or even more importantly, in their own scientific or related activities.
Contact
Institute for Biomedical Ethics
Bernoullistrasse 28 - 2nd Floor
4056 Basel
Switzerland
Tel: +41 61 207 17 86