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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HUMS 1450 - Medical Ethics:Decision Making Under Uncertainty

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This course introduces learners to ethical problems associated with the practice of medicine, the pursuit of biomedical research, and health care social policy. The course frames ethical decision making within the context of culture, emphasizing multiple cultural perspectives and traditional ethical theories and moral principles. Within this framework, students explore will explore autonomy, truth telling, patient confidentiality; research ethics and informed consent; animal experimentation; reproductive control; assisted reproduction and human reproductive cloning’ abortion; the dilemma of impaired infants; treating or terminating’ euthanasia and assisted reproduction; organ transplants and scarce medical resources; justice and the distribution of health care.

Prerequisite: ENGL 1300 .