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SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY / FACULTY OF DENTISTRY
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14. week (Practices)
The rights of patients.
The role of patient’s rights in the transformation of the paternalistic physician-patient relationship.
Moral versus legal rights.
A list of basic rights of patients.
Mechanisms to ensure the realizations of patient’s rights. (Patient’s rights advocates, ombudsman,
hospital ethics committees, institutional review boards, arbitration, etc.
Course Faculty:
Prof. József Kovács, MD, PhD, (Head of the Department of Bioethics), 210-2930/56350;
e-mail: kovjozs@net.sote.hu
Ágnes Dósa, MD, JD, PhD e-mail: dosaagi@yahoo.com
Imre Szebik, MD, PhD e-mail: szebimre@net.sote.hu
Jeno Lorincz, MD, JD e-mail: lorjen@net.sote.hu
Department:
Institute of Behavioral Sciences
Department of Bioethics
NET Budilding, 19 th ,20 th floor
1089. Budapest, Nagyvárad tér 4.
Tel: 210-2953
Secretary: NET Building, 20 th floor, Room-2005
List of questions
1. Deontological theories of ethics.
2. Utilitarian theories of ethics.
3. The principles of dental ethics
4. Justice and dental ethics: the allocation of scarce medical resources.
5. Paternalism in dental practice
6. Informed consent
7. Information disclosure for terminally ill patients
8. Advance Directives
9. Experimentation on human subjects
10. Objection to Transplantation of Organs and Counterarguments
11. Ethical problems of live organ donation
12. Organ donation from brain-dead donors: the system of donor cards.
13. Organ donation form brain-dead donors: presumed consent
14. Active and Passive Euthanasia
15. Withdrawing and withholding life sustaining treatment.
16. Models of the dentist-patient relationship
17. Ethical issues related to treating patients with partially compromised capacity
18. Professional norms and bad outcomes
19. Ethical questions raised by HIV and AIDS in dental practice
20. Confidentiality issues in dental practice
21. Moral issues related to the HIV positive dentist
22. Possible criteria for distributing the society’s resources
23. Social justice – the free market view of justice
24. Ethical issues in advertising dental services
25. Professional obligations in dentistry