The goal of this course this semester is that you leave with a better idea of where you would draw the line and why. To better recognize ethical issues in medicine and biomedicine 2. To develop a familiarity with the basic tenets of traditional ethical theories 3. To become more sensitive to the complexity of ethical issues in medicine 4. To understand the ethical issues associated with our health care delivery system.
Students are responsible for class attendance.
I didn't know. Since this is a course largely based on class discussion, your absence from class or your repeated failure to participate in the class discussion will have serious deleterious effects on your final grade. Obviously this course should help you to make informed, reasonable decisions when confronted by an ethical decision in the health care area. This may seem a rather remote possibility to you now but sooner or later you will have to face these kinds of situations in your life. Many of the ethical issues studied here are not confined to the medical arena.