Course Description
Examination of the legal, ethical, and social problems generated by advances in health, medicine, and biotechnology. Some of the issues covered include human cloning and stem cell research, gene-based therapies, death and dying, reproductive technologies, experimentation with human subjects, and societal limits on scientific developments.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Graduate law students will not be doing any extra work beyond
that required of the Juris Doctor students. J.D. students are
post-baccalaureate students and the workload expected of them is
the same workload expected of post-baccalaureate graduate students.
Athena Title
Bioethics
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in JURI 5585E or JURI 7585E
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
To familiarize students to the legal and philosophical underpinnings of bioethics and the current major topics in the field. In addition, provide students with the ability to describe and analyze various principles and approaches to bioethics in healthcare, law and public policy.
Topical Outline
1. Philosophical/ethical constructs in bioethics 2. Legal constructs in bioethics 3. End of life issues 4. Reproductive technology 5. Humans as research subjects 6. Genetic-based medicine 7. Cloning and stem cell research 8. Societal constraints on science