Current Controversies in Bioethics 1

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This course examines a wide variety of controversial issues that arise within bioethics. Part I of the course focuses on conceptual controversies relating to disease, illness, and death, and the practical issues of end of life care involved in euthanasia/assisted suicide. Part II examines problems that challenge principles of human dignity. Part III examines genetics. Finally, Part IV concerns problems relating to social justice.