PHIL 317 - Medical Ethics

When Offered: F;S;SS

3 Credit(s)
3 Lecture Hour(s)
0 Lab Hour(s)

This course introduces students to ethical challenges arising within the practice of medicine. Topics considered include truth-telling, informed consent, confidentiality, medical futility, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, gene therapy, social justice in health care, use of animal and human subjects in medical research, and organ transplantation.