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May 12, 2024
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PHL 220 - Biomedical Ethics
Credit(s): 3
This course is an introduction to Biomedical Ethics. We will study ethical theories and their application to a wide range of biomedical issues, including; the roles and responsibilities of physicians, patients, and others, research ethics and informed consent, genetic control, abortion, euthanasia and physician assisted death, distributing health care medicine in a pluralistic society, and the challenge of global bioethics. The course is designed as a discussion course relying on instructor prepared materials, drawing on readings from one assigned text. We will first study ethical theory. We will then move on to a consideration of various moral issues through the study of significant readings in bioethics. Offered Even Fall.
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