PHIL 309: Bioethics

PHIL 309-DL2: Bioethics
(Fall 2025)

Online

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Section Information for Fall 2025

This course provides in-depth discussions of the philosophical, medical, scientific, social,
and legal aspects of controversial bioethical issues. Students will study this material with a
varied collection of thought-provoking readings covering a basic introduction to ethics, bioethics,
moral principles, critical thinking, and moral reasoning. Students will also be introduced to
influential moral theories, including criteria and guidelines for evaluating them. Students will then
take up detailed examinations of the classic cases that have helped shape debate in major issues in
bioethics through current, news-making cases for evaluation. 

PHIL 309 DL2 is an online asynchronous section.

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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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