CRCRTH619 Biomedical Ethics
Course Description
This course develops students’ critical thinking about dilemmas in medicine and health care policy, such as those that arise around allocation of scarce resources, criteria for organ transplants, informed consent, experimentation on human subjects, AIDS research, embryo research and selective termination of pregnancy, euthanasia, and physician-assisted suicide. Through such cases the course introduces methods in moral reasoning, rights-based reasoning, decision-making under uncertainty, and utilitarianism in classic and contemporary normative reasoning.
Academic Information
Credits: 3
Schedule & Fee
Dates: Jul 19 - Aug 5
Class #: 1939
Course Fee: $1335
Lab Fee: $0
Total Course Fee: $1335
Instructor
Mark Robinson
Markdrobinson@gmail.com
Book Information
Required:
  1. Petryna, A., Lakoff, A., & Kleinman, A. (Eds.). (2006). Global pharmaceuticals. Duke University Press.

Optional:
  1. DeVries, R., & Subedi, J. (Eds.). (1998). Bioethics and Society: Constructing the Ethical Enterprise. Prentice Hall.
Wimba Requirement
UMB online courses use Wimba classroom (a live discussion tool) at least twice during the semester. Information about Horizon Wimba can be found at www.dlvpc.umb.edu/wimbasupport.htm. Your course instructor will inform you about dates and times of course meetings in Wimba Classroom.