PHIL 250 Bioethics

This course is an introduction to the methods of ethics developed for addressing moral issues in the practice of health care and research. Methods addressed will include: professional ethics (practice standards and professional norms) casuistry the principles of biomedical ethics applied normative theory feminist bioethics and narrative ethics. We will use these methods to address a host of topics of concern to those participating in health care institutions either (directly) as providers or (somewhat less directly) as policy makers. Given in alternate years.