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Apr 26, 2024
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PHIL 110 Introduction to Bioethics (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Course Description
An introduction to the major ethical issues concerning genetics, biotechnology and modern medicine, including ethical issues surrounding stem cell research, human and animal cloning, genetically modified plants and gene therapy.
Student Outcomes
1. Describe the disciplines of ethics/moral philosophy, bioethics, and medical ethics.
2. Describe and recognize the distinctions between consequentialist, duty, and virtue ethics. Evaluate and critique these approaches and apply them to bioethical arguments.
3. Identify and explain the important distinction between a human and a person.
4. Examine and critique the arguments concerning the use of animals and humans for medical research. Outline the various issues surrounding “the principle of a respect for autonomy.”
6. Analyze issues of justice surrounding patents on biology, plants, and animals. Examine and critique the justifications for and against such property rights and determine which practice is most just.
7. Understand the stem cell controversy and the various contemporary arguments presented for and against such research. Examine and critique the ethical conclusions drawn from using the principles of beneficence and other philosophical principles.
8. Analyze the arguments surrounding the cloning of animals and humans using the principle of beneficence.
9. Summarize the advantages and disadvantages of genetic therapies and modifications and analyze this in ethical terms.
10. Outline the use of biotechnology in relation to food sources. Contrast the various arguments concerning the genetic manipulation of plants and animals using the precautionary principle. Formulate an individual response.
11. Construct an ethical response to individual biotechnology issues. Defend position with moral theories and well-constructed philosophical argument.
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