PHIL 3500 - Bioethics

(3) Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 or permission of instructor
Cross-listed with: RELN 3500
Bioethics examines a number of moral issues arising within the context of ethics and life. We will focus specially on the implications for human life and values of recent advances in biotechnology. Particular ethical problems of euthanasia, end of life care, reproductive technologies, abortion, behavioral control, disparities in healthcare delivery systems, experimentation on human subjects, genetic engineering, organ transplants, organ trafficking, allocation of scare resources, informed consent, critique of the contemporary institution of medicine, etc. will be considered, examines and discussed. This course is equivalent to RELN 3500. Credit will only be issued for PHIL 3500 or RELN 3500.