PHIL 309: Bioethics

PHIL 309-006: Bioethics
(Fall 2025)

12:00 PM to 01:15 PM TR

Horizon Hall 1011

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Section Information for Fall 2025

In this class we will:
1. learn to identify ethical questions and concerns that arise for practitioners, researchers, policy
makers, and the public in the domains of science, medicine, public health, and global health;
2. learn and use ethical theories, concepts, and principles—for guidance in (1) identifying, (2)
analyzing, and (3) deciding how best to respond to these questions and concerns;
3. strengthen ethical perception and literacy more generally;
4. improve on our ability to engage with (read, interpret analyze) philosophical texts—
individually and in relation to one another—as readers, thinkers, discussants, and writers;
5. strengthen the capacity to write philosophically.

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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. Offered by Philosophy. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Mason Core, Mason Apex
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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