PHIL 309: Bioethics

PHIL 309-003: Bioethics
(Fall 2014)

01:30 PM to 02:45 PM MW

Section Information for Fall 2014

This course examines ethical issues in medicine, the life science, public and global health, and health policy using the resources of moral philosophy. We consider the experiences of researchers patients, family caregivers, and health professionals working in hospitals, clinics, and humanitarian health care as they navigate systems of moral belief amid complex social, political, and economic processes, and explore how best to address the moral distress and dilemmas they encounter. ​

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Examines some major moral issues involved in practice and research in medicine and health care. Topics to be chosen from medical experimentation, definition of death, physician-assisted dying, genetics and human reproduction, distribution of scarce resources, fertility, and organ transplants. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Synthesis
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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