PHL 274 - Bioethics, 3 credit hours

Students learn influential theories in philosophical ethics and study their application to a number of controversial ethical issues emerging from new situations and possibilities brought about by advances in biology and medicine. Students engage in interdisciplinary thinking by examining ethical questions that arise in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law, and philosophy. Specific ethical issues include debates over the boundaries of life, allocation of scarce health-care resources, cloning, and genetic engineering.