PHIL 309: Bioethics

PHIL 309-DL2: Bioethics
(Fall 2022)

Online

Section Information for Fall 2022

Throughout the course, students will hone their abilities to present valid logical arguments, improve their skills in writing philosophy papers, and improve their abilities to critically assess texts. Students will also have a great deal of fun reading some of the most exciting philosophical literature about bioethics.

            This course will provide students with a detailed elaboration of the main themes of contemporary bioethics. The course is divided into two broad sections: (1) presentation of an assemblage of arguments clustered around the nature of bioethics, patient rights, the ethical issues associated with nature medical treatment, competing concepts of health, as well as ethical issues associated with abortion and eugenics, race, and accessibly to medical care; (2) student presentations on ethical issues related to nursing, public health, and other course content.

PHIL 309 DL2 is an asynchronous distance education 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. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Synthesis
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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