PHIL 244 - Bioethics

Credits: 3

Description
Treatments of such issues as abortion and euthanasia, cloning, genetic screening, just health care, patients’ rights, the use of human and animal subjects in research.

Student Learning Outcomes

Develop and apply a critical method for ethical decision making.
Recognize current issues in biomedical ethics and reflect on possible moral choices.
Demonstrate the skills of critical reading and writing in a biomedical context.
Understand and explain major ethical theories underlying decisions in biomedical ethics.
Be able to write an argumentative essay on an issue of biomedical ethics.

Prerequisite: None