Program:
Format:
Online
Term:
Summer 2023
Session:
Summer Session II: June 29 – August 4, 2023
Subject Area:
PHILOSOPHY (PHIL)
Course Number
PHIL 1342 920
Schedule:
Monday 12:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday 12:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Friday 12:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Instructor:
SIDZINSKA, MAJA
Primary Program:
LPS Undergraduate & Post-Baccalaureate
Course Description:
This course is an introduction to bioethics, focusing on ethical questions arising at the beginning and end of life. Topics will include procreative responsibilities, the question of wrongful life, and prenatal moral status as well as questions of justice related to markets for sperm, eggs, and gestation. We will also attend to dilemmas at the end of life, including the authority of advance directives, euthanasia, and the allocation of life-saving therapies.
