Course Details

  • Online, asynchronous 
  • 8 weeks | May 28 to July 19, 2024
  • 3 credits | $1,716
  • Last day to register: May 21, 2024
  • Prerequisites: One 100-Level Philosophy Cornerstone Course

Course Overview

Discussion and resolution of ethical problems associated with the practice of medicine and the pursuit of biomedical research. Topics include: ethical issues in human experimentation; euthanasia; abortion; fetal research; and reproductive technologies.

This course fulfills the Moral Inquiry general education requirement.

Course Advantages

This course examines some of the most important contemporary issues in biomedical ethics. In particular, euthanasia, abortion, allocation of scarce medical resources, informed consent, and issues arising from recent developments in genetics will be among the problems that we will study in detail. During this course, students are expected to acquire an appreciation of the complexity of the dilemmas involved in making decisions in medicine and healthcare, but also to become able to address such dilemmas in a critical/philosophical manner through the application of major ethical theories.

Additional Information

Faculty will contact all students after the Tuesday, May 21, registration deadline.

About the Instructor

Constantinos Mekios

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Constantinos Mekios is an associate professor of philosophy at Stonehill College. Before earning his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Boston University, he also studied biology and received M.A. and M.Phil. degrees from the Department of Genetics and Development at Columbia University. His main research interests are in the philosophy of science, with a focus on the philosophy of biology.

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