HSOC 140 History of Bioethics
Offered:Fall 2008
Walls T 3-6
**THIS COURSE HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED, PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME SLOT**
This course is an introduction to the historical development of medical ethics and to the birth of bioethics in the twentieth-century United States. We will examine how and why medical ethical issues arose in American society at this time. Themes will include human experimentation, organ donation, the rise of medical technology, and euthanasia. Finally, this course will examine the contention that the current discipline of bioethics is a purely American phenomenon that has been exported to Great Britain, Canada, and Continental Europe.
