Contemporary Issues in Bioethics

• • Bioethics in the contemporary context; Just allocation of resources; Ethical issues regarding human organ transplantation; Ethical issues at the end and beginning of life; Ethical issues in research on early human life and development of novel therapies; Ethical issues in decision making in the COVID19 Pandemic; Ethical Issues regarding human genital surgery; Ethical obligations to our planet; Social Justice and Catholic social teaching; Research Ethics and the pharmaceutical industry; Informed consent; Transhumanism and use of artifical intelligence in medicine.

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• UND-BIO-GCE-2022

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Contemporary Issues in Bioethics addresses selected ethical issues relevant to health care and clinical research. Topics to be covered will include: ethical issues at the beginning and at the end of life; ethical issues in contemporary health care practice, including informed consent; conscientious objection; the just allocation of health care resources; organ transplantation; health and climate change; circumcision and female genital mutilation. The course also includes research ethics and the pharmaceutical industry; ethical issues involved with genetic technologies; the ethics of public health interventions; and the role of artificial intelligence in health care.

Three summative assessment components comprising 1. Engagement in tutorial discussions 2. Written disputation and 3. 0ral presentation of disputation

• Oral presentation of disputation . (20%%)
• Engagement in tutorial discussions (40%%)
• Written disputation (1500 words) (40%%)

Current study term: 24 Jul 22 to 28 Oct 22