DPI-204: Seminar in Bioethics

Semester: Not Offered

Credit: 1.0

Faculty: Frances Kamm

Schedule

Day Time Location
First Day
Meet Day
Review

Description

Examines issues in bioethics and aspects of normative ethical theory bearing on them. Topics are to be selected from the following: aggregation and the distribution of scarce resources; discrimination and disability; death and assisted suicide; abortion; the moral status of the embryo; and genetic modification and enhancement. Includes readings from contemporary philosophical sources. Prerequisite: At least one course in ethics.

Also offered by the Law School as HLS -90335A, but not offered 2009-10.