Bioethics (PHIL 165 Section 002)

The practice of medicine and the development of health care policy raise ethical questions that are both theoretically challenging and practically important: Is abortion permissible?  When are doctors permitted to deceive their patients?  Should organ donors be allowed to sell transplantable organs?  What norms should guide our treatment of humans and animals in medical research?  Drawing on core work in moral theory, we will try to answer these and related questions.

This course requires 10 pages of written work and an in class final.

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