HSOC 102 Bioethics
Cross-listed as SOCI 101
Offered:Spring 2010
Moreno MW 1-2 + recitation
Bioethics is intended to introduce students to the thorny issues that confront medicine and biotechnology in this time of rapid change. The first part of the course will be devoted to an overview of the standard principles of academic bioethics. We will then consider several clinical topics to which the principles may be applied, including abortion and end-of-life treatment. Next we will consider problems of human research ethics and a number of emerging fields of interest to bioethicists, such as stem cells and cloning, neuroscience, and bioethics in relation to national security. We conclude with a look at the recent alleged “politicization” of bioethics.
