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BIOL 4372

Bioethics Issues for the Life Sciences

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Winter 2025

Topics

  • to read the assigned material prior to class. The course is designed to encourage active

Readings

  • Required: Collier, C., & Haliburton, R. (2021). Bioethics in Canada: a philosophical introduction. Canadian Scholars’ Press.
  • Required: Print version: E-book:
Fall 2020

Topics

  • Brief history of bioethics
  • Past and current approaches to bioethics
  • What makes a good bioethics argument?
  • The 4 Principles Approach to Bioethics (autonomy, justice, beneficence, non-maleficence)
  • Humans as Moral Agents
  • What makes Homo sapiens unique?
  • Where do morals come from?
  • Concepts of 'person'
  • Medical Ethics
  • Patient-Physician relationship
  • Allocation of scarce resources
  • End of Life Issues
  • Defining death
  • Proxies and advanced directives
  • Assisted dying
  • Reproductive Issues
  • The right to reproduce
  • When does life begin?
  • Rights of the mother and the fetus
  • Biomedical Research Ethics
  • Honesty and peer review
  • Equipoise
  • Placebo
  • Ecology and Environmental Ethics
  • Do we have a responsibility to protect the environment?
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