PHILOS 10 - Bio-ethics

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    Cal-GETC Area 3B (Humanities) This is an introduction to moral philosophy as applied to a range of normative issues raised by contemporary biology and medicine. The course introduces the main moral theories and strategies for moral decision-making, and such topics as assisted or alternative reproduction, abortion, circumcision and female genital cutting, cloning and genetic engineering, overpopulation, suicide, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, animal and human experimentation, research, practitioner-patient relationships, and allocation of scarce medical resources.