Foreword
The advancement and innovation of science and technology has never cease to grow, in pursue of augmenting human life and daily experiences. These rapid progressions of human enhancement science and technology have created inevitable bioethics dilemmas for individuals, society, environment, and humanity in general. Consequently, the growing needs to prepare and equip our scientists, scholars, and practicing professionals, especially those working in health-medicine related field, with the sufficient knowledge and basic capacity to navigate and address the various ethical issues related to Human Enhancement Technology (HET) application.
The Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities (CBMH) at Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada (FMPHN UGM), views this as an opportunity to provide assistance and facilitation in the building of bioethics capacity required for addressing complexity HET issues. One of the strategies to initiate the capacity building is through this bioethics crash course series, specifying on HET topic. This HET crash course is also expected to foster a continuous open dialogue, as well as encouraging the birth of new discourses regarding the advancement and innovation of science and technology from bioethics and humanity perspectives. The multi and even transdisciplinary dialogue among scholars and practicing professionals hopefully could promote sustainable and humane future HET development.
This particular Bioethics Crash Course Series is re-formulated from the CBMH experiences in conducting the pilot elective bioethics course titled “Exploring The Human Enhancement Technology” delivered for medical students at FMPHN in December 2015 and 2016. Learning from the positive appreciations and feedbacks for that elective module, we believe a much broader audience of health professionals, and even other interested scholars or general participants, would need and benefit from such course. Hence the we presented this formulation of Course Guides on “Exploring Human Enhancement Technology through Bioethics and Humanity Lenses”.
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HET – Module and HKI Certificate
