Biology, Moral Behavior and Policy

Catalog description

A multidisciplinary approach to moral decision making as it relates to public policy in healthcare. Examines the foundation of moral behavior and advances to the neural substrates of decision making with an emphasis on the learning, reward processing, and emotional systems that control behavior. Also incorporates discussions of specific ethical issues in biomedical sciences, paying particular attention to the nature of the dilemma and the voices guiding public policy. BISC 4170 can apply to either the Health and Society cognate, or the BISC major electives, but not both.