The structure and content of the Florence course
| Day | Foundations | Principles | Case-studies | Evening lecturers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why care about consequences? | Beneficence and non-maleficence | Extreme prematurity from induced abortion | Euthanasia and the newborn |
| 2 | Free will and responsibility | Autonomy and respect for person | Intensive care in a situation of fatal disease | Fetuses, newborn and personhood |
| 3 | Can justice be justified? | Non-discrimination and solidarity | The Arthur case | Priorities in health care |
| 4 | To generalise or not to generalise? | Free time | Fetus/infant in research. Vaccination trial | The role of prognostic uncertainty |
| 5 | The relevance of ethical theories | Free time | Free time | The EURONIC-project: end-of-life decisions in neonatal medicine |