Health care professionals and others professionally interested in medical ethics find themselves increasingly confronted with moral questions and dilemmas. Such complex issues challenge the people who have to deal with them every day. They require careful study and well-considered judgement, as well as rigorous questioning and thorough debate. Nowadays ethics education has become part of the curriculum of most European Health care training programmes. However, until now a concentrated grouping of such initiatives was lacking. That now has changed with the Master of Bioethics. For the first time several eminent European universities and institutes have combined their efforts in the field of bioethics by developing a one year or two year master's programme that focuses on all issues currently relevant to bioethics.
The master's programme has been designed to offer an advanced education into health care ethics, thereby specifically paying attention to international bioethics with a special attention to European philosophical as well as theological traditions in this area. It has therefore a wider theoretical perspective than the analytical, applied ethics approach dominant in the Anglo-Saxon atmosphere. The education is based on the research in health care ethics as is undertaken in the participating departments and institutes. Emphasis will be on: personalism, communitarianism, hermeneutic ethics, social ethics and empirical work in ethics. Special attention will be given to pluralism in theories and methods of bioethics, characteristic for European philosophical traditions and schools. Philosophical and theological theories about the concept of person, the human body, solidarity, meaning of life and death, care, goals of medicine, the technological imperative, have also had a significant impact on the development of European health care ethics. Complementary to these theoretical perspectives, the programme has a strong interdisciplinary character and the ethical reflection is directed toward specific areas. The attention is focused on the clinical and practical health care settings in which ethical issues arise.
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