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Undergraduate Catalog 2017-2018 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PHIL 329 - (P) Advanced Topics in Biomedical Ethics

3 cr.
(Prerequisites: PHIL 120  and PHIL 210  and one of the following:  PHIL 212  or PHIL 316 , or science/allied health major, or permission of instructor)

This course will focus narrowly upon an issue (or a set of related issues) in biomedical research which generates significant moral concern. Topics will vary, but may include embryo-destructive research; cloning and donor siblings; genetic testing and eugenics; genetic enhancement; and the production of human/non-human chimeras. Typically the course will also consider the nature and purpose of biomedical research and medicine.