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Apr 23, 2024
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HU 332 - Bioethics3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Bioethics is a broad interdisciplinary field encompassing consideration of the ethical significance of the practice and results of the biological sciences as well as the ethics of practice of the various health care professions. This course emphasizes ethical issues arising in health care delivery and its institutions. Topics include the nature of professional ethics; truth telling, informed consent and confidentiality; children, well-being and competence; decision-making with respect to the end of life; the ethics of reproductive technologies; and justice and access to health care. The polarity of the values of autonomy and community is a recurring theme of the course. Students cannot get credit for both HU-332 and HU-432. (prereq: must be a BE or nursing student to enroll in HU-332, junior standing)
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