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PHIL 4740 - Advanced Biomedical Ethics


3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: one 2000 or 3000-level philosophy course, or consent of instructor.
Description
Consideration of ethical theories and their application to moral problems in science and medicine, such as genetic testing, abortion, euthanasia, experimentation with human and animal subjects, and new ethical questions raised by research in psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience. May be repeated but only if content varies. A maximum of six credit hours may be applied toward the major.