060513010 ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ISSUES ( 1 Crd.Hrs )

The goal of the course is to provide the tools for addressing common, everyday ethical issues in the health professions. The course will examine moral dilemmas created or intensified by recent advances in medical technology and study ways of analyzing those dilemmas to make them more tractable. It will focus on examples such as euthanasia and the right to die, abortion, behavior modification, allocation of scarce medical resources, in vitro fertilization, genetic screening and engineering, and human experimentation.