Cipher: 1118
Nomenclature: Ethics in biosciences
Study programme: Molecular biosciences
Module: elective course (methodological)
Case holder:

Assoc. prof.dr.sc. Ivica Kelam
Prof.dr.sc. Hrvoje Lepeduš
Institution of the case holder:

(IK) Faculty of Educational Sciences
(HL) Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Dental Medicine and Health, J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek
Contributors - Contractors:
Subject status: Electoral College
The year in which the case is submitted: Year I
The semester in which the case is submitted: Semester I
Subject objective:

To independent students for critical thinking and to conduct a reasoned discussion about ethical principles and norms in scientific research and to understand the relationship between bioethics and biosciences.
Case contents:

Ethical principles in experimental research. Ethical attitude towards the environment – disposal of experimental waste. Ethical norms in the behavior of researchers: of the same rank, senior – young researchers (phD students, postdoctoral students). Ethics in writing publications. Plagiarized share checks: mechanical (computer programs), settings, chapters of scientific work in which syntagms, descriptions and sources are necessarily repeated, titles-sentences (M&M, List of cited references), Principle of caution, Violation of ethical norms in scientific research, Relationship of values and technology, Moral and ethical dilemmas in scientific research, Bioethics, Relationship between bioethics and biosciences
Learning outcomes: competences, knowledge, skills that the subject develops:

1. Review the ethical controversy in some experimental studies.
2. Propose professional and ethical principles a concerted action in academia.
3. Judge your own role in prosocial behaviour and action in academia.
4. Assess the importance of an interdiciplinary, transdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, pluriperspective and integrative approach in scientific work.
ECTS Credits 6
Lectures 20
Seminars (IS) 5
Exercises (E) 10
Altogether 35
The way of teaching and acquiring knowledge:

1. Attend lectures and actively participate in discussions.
2. Write a seminar paper.
3. It is the obligation of the participants to monitor the dynamics of the performance of the intended obligations, using the relevant literature and scientific research methods.
4. Pass the oral exam.
Ways of teaching and acquiring knowledge: (notes)
Monitoring and evaluating students (mark in fat printing only relevant categories) Attendance, Teaching activities, Mandatory seminar work
Rating method: Oral exam, Essay/Seminar, Continuous examination of knowledge in the course of teaching
Mandatory literature:

1. I. Kelam: Genetically modified crops as a bioethical problem (Parchmenta/Higher Evade Theological College, Zagreb/Osijek, 2015)
2. H. Jurić: Ethics of Responsibility by Hans Jonas (Pergamena, Zagreb, 2011)
3. N. Herceg: Environment and Sustainable Development (Synopsis, Zagreb, 2013)
4.M. Huesemann, J. Huesemann: Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment (New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, 2011)
5. A. Briggle, C. Mitcham: Ethics and Science – an Introduction (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012)
Supplementary (recommended) literature:

1. T. Furrier: Knowledge and destruction. Integrative bioethics and environmental problems (Pergamena/Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, 2011)
2. V. Hösle: Philosophy of ecological crisis (Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, 1996)
3. I. Pollard: Bioscience ethics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009)
4.C. Willmot, S. Macip: Where Science and Ethics Meet – Dilemmas at the Frontiers of Medicine and Biology (Praeger, Santa Barbara, 2016)
5. F. J. Ayala: Evolution, Explanation, Ethics, and Aestethics – Towards a Philosophy of Biology (Elsevier, London, 2016)
6.C. Patterson: The Eternal Treblinka. Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust (Genesis / Animal Friends, Zagreb, 2005)
7. G. L. Comstock: Life Science Ethics (Springer, London, 2010)
8. J. G. Speight, R. Foote: Ethics in Science and Engineering (Wiley-Scrivener, 2011)
9.B. E. Rollin: Science and Ethics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006)
10. K. Shrader-Frechette: Tainted - How Philosophy of Science Can Expose Bad Science (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014)
11. S. Mr. Morris: Science and the end of ethics (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2015)
12. J. D'Angelo: Ethics in Science - Ethical Misconduct in Scientific Research (CRC Press, New York, 2012)
13. P. Pruzan: Research Methodology - The Aims, Practices and Ethics of Science (Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016)
14. W. J. Gonzales: New Perspectives on Technology, Values, and Ethics Theoretical and Practical (Springer, London, 2015)
How to monitor the quality and performance performance (evaluation):

The success of the course will be evaluated annually by the joint expert committee of the Ruđer Boskovic Institute, the University of Dubrovnik and the University of Josip Juraj Strossmayer in Osijek based on exam success and surveys.