PHIL 226 - Biomedical Ethics

Students will grapple with a sample of ethical issues in medicine and health. The primary goals of doing so are: (1) to gain familiarity with key ethical concepts and values, which may include patient autonomy, beneficence, justice, care, anti-ableism, inclusion, and others; and (2) to enhance core critical thinking skills needed for ethics, which will help improve each student¿s self-understanding (of not only what they think is right and wrong, but, more importantly, why) and their capacity to engage with different perspectives on the "whats" and "whys' of ethics in a spirit of open-mindedness, mutual respect, and constructive cooperation. Assignments will typically include at least one writing-intensive assignment and will be designed to help students develop and showcase the familiarity with concepts and the skills for ethics described above.