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2010-2011 University Catalog

PHIL 309 - Bioethics

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.

Satisfies General Education Requirement: Synthesis requirement

Prerequisites
Completion or concurrent enrollment in all other general education courses.

Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week: 3
Hours of Lab or Studio per week: 0