人生の始まりから終わりまで、納得できる選択をするための「思考の物差し」を学びませんか？
私たちは今、かつてないほど急速な科学技術の進展の中にいます。出生前診断を医療者としてどのように説明すべきか、当事者としてどう受け止めるべきか？治る見込みが少ない病気にかかってしまったときに、どのような治療や生き方の選択をすべきか？医療の現場で起きるこうした問いに、唯一の正解はありません。しかし、感情や直感だけに頼らず、論理的に「何が最善か」を導き出すための「思考の物差し」は存在します。 この講座で学べること ・医療倫理の四原則： 「自律尊重」「無危害」「善行」「公正」を共通言語に、複雑なジレンマを整理する力を養います 。 ・人生の始まりと終わりの最前線： 受精卵の選別、代理母出産、ゲノム編集から、延命治療の中止や安楽死まで、最新の議論を網羅します 。 ・ 「対話」の技術： 患者一人ひとりの物語（ナラティブ）を大切にしながら、家族や医療チームと「人生会議（Advanced Care Planning）」を重ねるプロセスを学びます 。 この講座は、医療従事者の方はもちろん、自分や大切な人の将来の選択に備えたいすべての方に向けた内容となっています。 医学、法学、哲学といった学際的な視点から、人生を豊かにするための倫理を一緒に探求しましょう!
[New Course from the University of Tokyo] The University of Tokyo is pleased to announce that our new Coursera course, “Biomedical Ethics and Public Health Ethics”, is now available. Would you like to gain a framework for making thoughtful and meaningful choices—from the beginning of life to end-of-life care? We are living in an era of unprecedented scientific and technological advancement. As a healthcare professional, how should you explain prenatal testing to patients and their families? As an individual, how should you respond when faced with such life-changing decisions? If diagnosed with a serious illness with limited prospects for recovery, how should we choose the treatments we pursue—and how we wish to live? There are no single, universally correct answers to these questions that arise in modern healthcare. However, rather than relying solely on emotion or intuition, there are ethical frameworks—tools for critical thinking—that can help us reason carefully about what may be the best course of action. What you will learn in this course: • The Four Principles of Medical Ethics: Learn how autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice provide a shared language for navigating complex ethical dilemmas. • Ethical Frontiers at the Beginning and End of Life: Explore contemporary debates ranging from embryo selection, surrogacy, and genome editing to the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment and euthanasia. • The Art of Dialogue: Learn how to value each patient’s personal narrative while engaging in meaningful conversations with families and healthcare teams through Advance Care Planning (ACP). This course is designed not only for healthcare professionals, but for anyone who wants to prepare for important life decisions—for themselves and for the people they care about. Join us as we explore ethics through interdisciplinary perspectives spanning medicine, law, philosophy, and public health.
