Official Course Description

BIOETHICS

PHIL 4242/5242-3. Bioethics. Examines some of the major moral issues confronting the nation's health care system. The class will search for solutions to such problems as financing health care for those unable to do so on their own, determining the extent of a patient's right to both refuse and demand certain types of medical treatment, and allocating scarce medical resources such as life-saving vital organs. The springboard for examining these issues will be the doctor or patient relationship framed by the moral principles of respect for persons and beneficence.

Section Details - PHIL 4242 - 001
Prereq: PHIL 3002 or 3022, a minimum grade of "C" in each previous philosophy course, or permission of instructor.

Meetings
M W - 04:00PM to 05:15PM at WC 233