Bioethics Beyond Humans: Animal, Food, Environmental Ethics

Harvard HMS

This interdisciplinary course examines bioethics "beyond the human", focusing on our relationships with animals, food systems, and the environment. We will explore how everyday choices - what we eat, how we use animals, and how we treat the natural world - express personal values and shape questions of justice, dignity, intrinsic value, prejudice, and identity. Drawing on animal ethics, food ethics, and environmental ethics, the course investigates how we assign value to nonhuman life, what…