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Dec 30, 2024
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2021-2022 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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PY 111 - Biomedical Ethics Credit Hours: 3
This is a course in applied ethics which concentrates on moral problems that arise in medical and biological research. A variety of problems will be critically evaluated through lecture and discussion.
Fulfills SUNY General Education – Humanities.
Course Outcomes Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- accurately employ the basic terms of medical ethics: right, duty, justice, autonomy, paternalism, informed consent;
- explain and examine critically the following ethical theories: Natural Law, Kantianism, Utilitarianism, Rawls’ Theory of Justice, Hume’s Interested Neutral Observer; and
- identify the medical ethical issues in selected case studies and use the theories developed in the course to propose ways of resolving them.
F/S (C, N, S)
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