Course Description This course is designed to introduce students to the basic principles of biomedical ethics and to identify ways that they can clarify their thinking about ethical problems. While we will not deal with all aspects of the study of the biological sciences, medicine, or biomedical ethics, we have developed the course to address current key issues and analysis. The extended writing assignment in Lesson 8 encourages students to extend the area of inquiry into a wide variety of fields such as law, religion, women's issues, or non-Western cultures. Together these lessons will give you a strong foundation for further reflection or study in the topic. Orders are shipped via UPS, so please include a street address.
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Since changes in edition can take place, students are advised to wait and purchase texts after enrolling in the course and receiving the course study guide. Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress. Principles of Biomedical Ethics . Oxford University Press, 1994. John D. Arras and Bonnie Steinbock.