Medical Ethics
PHIL 3320
School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology
This course will focus on the underlying principles of medical ethics, such as personal autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice will be examined as philosophic issues and in their application to medical problems. Readings and discussion will center on end of life issues, beginning of life issues, inherited abnormalities, allocation of scarce medical resources, and research protocols involving human subjects. 3 credit hours.
Prerequisites: (Upper-division standing or any previous PHIL course) or instructor consent required.
Offering Frequency: Every two years
Grades: 75
Median GPA: A
Mean GPA: 3.662