Bioethics at the Movies

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Movies and the stories they tell are a fantastic way to examine the issues in bioethics, as they allow us to extract, debate, and discuss abstract concepts and ideas with concrete cases and indepth contexts. We will look at interesting and challenging questions in bioethics using movies as the focus. In this class, we will watch mainstream films that address issues in ethics and health care, then explore some of the issues in those films in a little more depth. No prior experience in bioethics or study of film is required. We are going to explore and have fun.