An investigation into the many moral dilemmas health care professionals and medical science encounter.
PHIL 4332.001 & BIMS 4590.001 & BIOL 4590.002: Moral Issues in Contemporary Medicine
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Summer I 2024
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Don Berkich
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MWTR 10:00 - 11:55, IH-164
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Schedule
Please note that this schedule is tentative and authoritative: Changes may be made, but they would be made here. Thus this page supersedes any page with which it conflicts..
| Monday, 6/3 |
Introduction, Logic, Science, and Standards of Theoretical Evaluation |
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| Tuesday, 6/4 |
Moral Relativism |
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| Wednesday 6/5 |
Moral Theology I |
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| Thursday, 6/6 |
Moral Theology II |
Examination I |
| Monday, 6/10 |
Utilitarianism |
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| Tuesday, 6/11 |
Deontology |
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| Wednesday, 6/12 |
Contractarianism and Virtue Ethics |
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| Thursday, 6/13 |
Principles of Moral Analysis |
Examination II |
| Monday, 6/17 |
Reproduction I: Terminating Pregnancy |
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| Tuesday, 6/18 |
Reproduction II: Terminating Pregnancy |
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| Wednesday, 6/19 |
Emancipation Day |
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| Thursday, 6/20 |
Take-Home Examination III Substituted for Class due to Tropical Storm Alberto |
Examination III |
| Monday, 6/24 |
Reproduction III: Assisted Reproduction, PGD, and Genetic Manipulation |
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| Tuesday, 6/25 |
Euthanasia I |
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| Wednesday, 6/26 |
Euthanasia II |
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| Thursday, 6/27 |
Medical Experimentation |
Examination IV |
| Monday, 7/1 |
Medical Experimentation |
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| Tuesday, 7/2 |
Practicing Medicine: Truth-Telling, Confidentiality, and Medical Paternalism |
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| Wednesday, 7/3 |
Neuroethics and Concluding Remarks |
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| Thursday, 7/4 |
Independence Day |
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| Friday, 7/5 |
Examination V |
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