Advanced Theological Bioethics

1 credits · Divinity School

This course takes up questions about life, community, health, suffering, and death, with particular attention to medical systems and practices in the United States. We examine how those question are addressed (or not) in the typical discourses of bioethics, but we focus particularly on theological and pastoral approaches. Often the course will use the anthology, On Moral Medicine (Eerdmans) as an anchoring text, and other readings may include essays, novels, and poems. Recommended prerequisite: Christian Theology 755 and Christian Ethics 757 or equivalents.