STS.006J / 24.06J Bioethics, Spring 2006
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Author(s)
Hare, Caspar John, 1972-
Jones, David S. (David Shumway)
Alternative Title
Bioethics
Date Issued
June 2006
Abstract
Many difficult ethical questions have arisen from the explosive growth of biomedical research and the health-care industry since World War II. When and how should doctors be allowed to help patients end their lives? Should embryos be cloned for research and/or reproduction? Should parents be given control over the genetic make-up of their children? What sorts of living things is it appropriate to use as research subjects? How should we distribute scarce and expensive medical resources? While some of these questions are genuinely new, products of rapid changes in biomedical technology, others have been debated for centuries. Drawing on philosophy, history, and anthropology, this course will show students how problems in bioethics can be approached from a variety of perspectives, with the aim of understanding how we have gotten where we are, and how we should decide where to go next.
Subjects
medical ethics
ethics
genetics
stem cell
GM
genetically modified
genetic engineering
risk
biomedical
medicine
cloning
euthanasia
abortion
eugenics
slippery slope
organ transplant
organ donor
disease
public health
health care
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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