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Unit 12 - Biopolitics and Eugenics – Determining Factors in a Nation’s Governing

UNIVERSITY GRIGORI T. POPA OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY (RO)

1.2 Learning Objectives
All learning objectives must be expressed in connection with what the learner will be able to do after completing the activities any learning unit contains. As a matter of principle what educational activities concentrate on are the knowledge, skills and/or attitude the learners gain from the respective educational process. It is important to create measurable tools which will assess if and how the above elements have been reached. The topic of this unit ‘Eugenics and biopolitics, ‘favours’ Knowledge and attitude in terms of learning objectives. That is why the cognitive and affective domains will be laid a greater stress on. Definition, recognition, identifying, discussing, appraising, comparing, arguing, judging, predicting, making a choice are some of the elements important to describe the learning objectives of this unit.
  • Knowledge related learning objectives:
  • Introduce the students to the concept of eugenics and biopolitics, by defining and identifying various cases in time and geographical position
  • Familiarise the students with the conceptualisation of eugenics , exemplifying with materials from past and present authors
  • Introduce the students to the history and motivation of eugenic attitudes along centuries in various cultures, from ancient times to the present
  • Familiarise the students with the differences between the motivation which led to this process and the variety of methods used to achieve the desired results, along centuries , under various forms of government,
  • Introduce the students to some of the ideologies of the XXth century around the world and their consequences in terms of eugenics
  • Introduce the students to eugenic sterilisation implemented as a rationalized practice and its outcome

Attitude and competence related learning objectives:
  • Raise students’ awareness about decision making in issues of medical ethics, in order for them to avoid to become uninformed tools
  • Introduce students to the bioethical lines a physician can be forced to cross, given the right social context, and the consequence that ensue.
  • Introduce students to the outcome of denying a universal human right thus enabling them ‘to draw the line between reasonable measures and excessive acts’(interview with Prof Marius Turda), when one speaks of the health os a country
  • Motivate students to become part of a system whose role is ‘to educate and discuss these things publicly, so younger people can be informed and they could make better decisions about how these ideas and practices are influencing their lives’ (from the public statement made by Prof. Marius Turda in his quality of a curator, before the opening of …„«Nu suntem noi singurii»: Moștenirile globale ale eugeniei”….”
  • Motivate students to include historians, social workers and politicians in the deabate about eugenics and its future consequences
  • Stimulate reflections upon the significance of eugenics today knowing that the impact of former manifestations of eugenics continues to represent a very sensitive and emotional issue for many people, not only because eugenics was a source of discrimination based on race, social class, gender, disabilities, but also because new manifestations of these attitudes are more and more frequent
  • Develop students’ competence to distinguish between what is ethical and what is not
  • Develop students’ competence to support their ideas in discussions, speeches , public debates or in front of various administrative or political authorities

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