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PHIL 201 - Bioethics for Health Professions (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: None
An exploration of complex contemporary ethical problems from healthcare, the environment, and bioethics. Issues include problems of human experimentation and informed consent, end of life issues, reproductive technology, genetic privacy, abortion, allocation of resources, and humans’ relationship with their environment. Classical and contemporary ethical theories, moral theories, and the fundamentals of scientific integrity will be applied to make principled, defensible, moral judgments.