Training Complements (PhD in Biolaw: Bioethics, Health, and Human Rights (Inter-university))

Due to the multidisciplinary nature of the doctorate programme and bearing in mind the admissions profile, a training complement is included which is detailed below. 

Activity: Specific training in Biolaw

Number of hours: 75

Description: 

Character: Training Complement (Level MECES 3)
Description: this activity aims to enable students taking the programme to acquire sufficient knowledge in Biolaw so they obtain a basis and common minimum knowledge to undertake the programme successfully, whatever their access qualifications may be. This activity will be taken online.  

Contents: 

  • Common module (15 hours): Biolaw. Concept, methodology and contents. Interdisciplinary work formulae. Identification of the issues associated with the contents. Individualising biolaw as opposed to law and bioethics.
  • Specific module 1 (30 hours): Biolaw and Ethics. 1. Ethics as a philosophical reflection around morality: clarification, rationale, and application. Anthropological basis of morality. 2. The task of clarifying ethics: lived and thought morality, ethics and law, ethics and health, ethics and religion, ethics and science, ethics and technique, ethics and the environment. 3. The task of ethical rationale: theories that negate the possibility of rationale of morality (subjectivism, emotivism, ethical scepticism) and theories that offer a rationale of morality (eudemonism, utilitarism, deontology and others). 4. The task of ethical application: applied or “sectorial” ethics: ethics of the political, legal, and economic systems, ethics applied to organisations and ethics applied to professions. 5. Bioethics as applied ethics in the health sector. Bioethical problems in the health sector and methods to deal with them. Environmental bioethics and eco-ethics. Bioethics and Biolaw.
  • Specific module 2 (30 hours): Biolaw and Law. 1. Introduction to constitutional legislation and fundamental rights. 2. Human rights as the axis of biolaw: human rights protection in the area of life sciences and its legal translation. 3. The rights of the person and their incidence in the specific contents of biolaw. 4. Principles and basic rules of health legislation in the area of medical assistance and in scientific experimentation. 5. Concept, foundation, and rules related to assistance ethical committees and ethic in research. 6. Principles and basic rules of environmental regulations: effectiveness of the protection of environmental and health rights of the person against environmental damage.
  • Specific module 3 (30 hours): Biolaw and Sciences. 1. The impact caused by the application of medical and scientific-technological knowledge in life sciences: values that are affected and possible damage caused. 2. Balance between the advances in knowledge and the protection of the human being in experimental sciences. 3. Proportionality, biosecurity, and precautionary principle.
    • Itinerary A (Health Biolaw) 1. The clinical relationship as the core to health activity and scientific and technological research. 2. The principle of autonomy in decision-making processes. 3. Introduction to genetics. Processing genetic information. Genetic manipulation.
    • Itinerary B (Environmental Biolaw) 1. Environmental law from the perspective of the environment.

The common module must be taken by all the doctoral programme students. The Academic Committee will determine the specific modules (and, if applicable, itinerary) of the training complement which students who have been admitted onto the programme must take in their first year, depending on their prior qualifications and the research line chosen (with a minimum of 75 h.). 

Those students who have taken the master’s degree in Biolaw: Ethics and Science at the University of Murcia will not have to take this training complement.

Number of hours. Details and planning of activities: At least an estimated 75 hours’ time by the student. Appropriate activity for both full-time and part-time students.
Timeframe: It will be taken in the student’s first year by both full-time and part-time students. 
Language: Spanish  

Assessment procedure: 

Assessment of the activity will be by means of the tasks carried out as established by the activity’s lecturers.