API-604: Seminar in Bioethics

Semester: Spring

Credit: 1.0

Faculty: Frances Kamm

Schedule

Day Time Location
First Day 2/3
Meet Day T 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM HLS
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.