Winter Term 2025 Applied Ethics: Introduction to Biomedical Ethics - 1691 - PHIL 120 |
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Prerequisites/Notes: Recommended for freshmen and sophomores Catalog Description : The course will examine moral dilemmas created or intensified by recent advances in medical technology and study ways of analyzing those dilemmas to make them more tractable. We will focus on examples such as euthanasia and the right to die, abortion, behavior modification, allocation of scarce medical resources, in vitro fertilization, genetic screening and engineering, and human experimentation. PREREQUISITES: Recommended for freshmen and sophomores Attributes: Cross-Listed Course, GER Humanities Div, 100-199 Introductory Course
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