Health Care and Bioethics

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture) This course examines bioscience and medical ethical issues from Western moral and legal perspectives. Topics may include: abortion, euthanasia, stem cell research, cloning, gene therapy, the genetic manipulation of organisms, the distribution of scarce medical resources, patient confidentiality, competency criteria, the physician-patient relationship, patient right to information and the truth, the definitions of life and death, new reproductive technologies, and the debate between public and private health care. Note: PHIL-2202(3) was previously titled Ethics in Medicine and Law.