Introduction to Bioethics explores some of the most difficult - and fascinating - moral challenges we face in health, medicine, and emerging technologies.
ABOUT THIS COURSE
Should we clone humans? Who owns our DNA? How much control should we have over how and when we die? When does medical treatment turn into medical enhancement — and should we care? Is rationing health care good, bad, necessary — or all of the above?
This course will explore fundamental moral issues that arise in medicine, health, and biotechnology. Get behind the headlines — and polarized debates — and join others who want to think deeply and openly about these problems. Some are as old as life itself: the vulnerability of illness, the fact of death. Some are new, brought on by a dizzying pace of technology that can unsettle our core ideas about human nature and our place in the world. And nearly all intersect with issues of racial and gender equality, as well as policies affecting the world’s most vulnerable populations.
Designed to introduce students to the range of issues that define bioethics, together with core concepts and skills, this course should be of interest to undergraduates, health care professionals, policy makers, and anyone interested in philosophy or ethics.
COURSE STAFF
Tom Beauchamp
Tom Beauchamp is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, where his research specialties include ethics of human-subjects research and the place of universal principles and rights in biomedical ethics. One of the founding fathers of bioethics, he was one of the lead authors of the Belmont Report, the 1978 paper that established the first ethical guidelines for conducting research on humans, and is co-author with Jim Childress ofPrinciples of Biomedical Ethics, currently in its 6th edition — the world’s most widely used bioethics textbook.
John Keown
John Keown is the Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. His research on the legal and ethical aspects of medicine has been cited by the United States Supreme Court, the Law Lords, the House of Commons, the House of Lords Select Committee on Medical Ethics, and the Australian Senate, before which he was invited to testify. He obtained his D.Phil from the University of Oxford and his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge.
Rebecca Kukla
Rebecca Kukla is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Her background in philosophy of science, philosophy of language, and cultural theory inform and enrich her work in bioethics. She is especially interested in how medical risk and uncertainty are represented and managed at the level of individual decision-making, scientific methodology, policy, and the culture at large. She gives media interviews, expert testimony, and policy advice on issues in the ethics of reproductive health care. She has served as co-coordinator of the Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Network and is the current co-editor of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal.
Margaret Little
Maggie Little is Director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown. Her writings on abortion, cosmetic surgery, and reasoning about risk have been widely reprinted. She has twice served as Visiting Scholar in residence at the National Institutes of Health Department of Bioethics. She is a founding member of The Ob-Gyn Risk Research Group, which brings together experts from medical epidemiology, obstetrics and gynecology, philosophy, bioethics, gender theory, and the medical humanities, for research encompassing a wide variety of issues in reproductive health and clinical research ethics. Together with Ruth Faden and Anne Lyerly, she co-founded The Second Wave Initiative, which works to promote responsible research into the health needs of pregnant women.
Madison Powers
Madison Powers is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. He is co-author, with Ruth Faden, of Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy. His current research centers on the application of political philosophy in issues arising in health and environmental policy. He is also author of the FEW Project, a web resource on the intertwined challenges of Food, Energy, and Water. With a background in both law and philosophy, Dr. Powers served as a member of the Privacy Working Group of the Clinton Health Care Task Force and was appointed by President George W. Bush as a member of the NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee.
Karen Stohr
Karen Stohr is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Her primary research interests are in Aristotelian virtue ethics and Kantian ethics, with publications on topics such as moral emotion and imagination, the virtue of practical wisdom, and the duty of beneficence. Dr. Stohr has extensive experience teaching on a range of issues in bioethics, including stem cell research, ordinary and extraordinary care, objections of conscience for health care providers, and attitudes toward animals.
Robert M. Veatch
Robert M. Veatch is Professor of Medical Ethics and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. One of the pioneers of contemporary medical ethics, Dr. Veatch served as an ethics consultant in the early legal case of Karen Ann Quinlan, the woman whose parents won the right to forgo life-support, and testified in the case of Baby K, an anencephalic infant whose mother argued for a right of access to continued ventilatory support. He has worked extensively on death and dying, human experimentation, and organ transplantation.
PREREQUISITES:
None. This is an introductory course.
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