Overview
Description
Treatment of such issues as abortion and euthanasia, cloning, genetic screening, just health care, patients’ rights, the use of human and animal subjects in research.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Core
CO9, CO12
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- state a thesis about a text in bioethics, and provide evidence and philosophical argument (including replies to counter-arguments) in its defense.
- analyze at an introductory level some fundamental issues and problems in bioethics.
- distinguish better and worse reasoning in texts concerned with bioethics.
- explain the practical implications of an abstract debate in the bioethics literature, especially in the light of recent or evolving scientific/technological developments.