Global Bioethics

Catalog description

Healthcare is delivered all over the world. People have similar diseases and illnesses but different interpretations of health and suffering. Also, how they respond to medical challenges will depend on ethical values within specific religious and cultural contexts. Organ donation, commercial motherhood, and euthanasia are therefore approached in very different ways across the world. Given this diversity, is it possible to identify common ethical values that can lead to a global response to ethical challenges? This course will assess bioethical cases, study original sources and listen to relevant religious stories from all over the world. This course has been granted the Global Diversity theme area of the University CORE. In this course we will study these issues, illustrate their relevance by exploring real-life cases, and learn to analyze them.