Overview
The Bioethics Microcredential lets students engage with an exciting area of applied ethics, debating issues relating to healthcare, biotechnology, and biomedical research. It includes a foundational ethics course, a course in general medical ethics, and an upper-level course that focuses on concerns specific to the Deaf community. Completing this microcreditial documents familiarity with these topics, philosophical analysis skills, and the motivation to take moral, social, and legal considerations seriously.
Courses & Requirements
Summary of Requirements
Bioethics Microcredential Required Courses (9 credits)
Study of questions relating to value judgments, such as 'What makes actions right or wrong?' and 'What are the components of a good life?' This course covers the principles and methods of moral reasoning. Students will compare and evaluate various ethical theories, and use them to examine and debate classic problems and current controversies.
This course is an introduction to the field of medical ethics and the kinds of decisions individuals and families make about health care and treatment options. Students will look at current issues such as kinds of treatment and their effects, allocation of health care resources, ethical issues of health care professionals, managed care decisions, and end of life decisions. Students will apply philosophical theories of ethics to these issues and develop perspectives on health care decision making.
Bioethics is a branch of applied ethics, which in turn is a part of the philosophical field of ethics. Bioethics applies ethical theory to issues in the biological sciences, including scientific research and healthcare. This course introduces major theoretical approaches to bioethics and applies them to topics of interest to the deaf community, including (but not limited to) eugenics, cochlear implant surgery, and genetic technology. Bioethics theories and concepts covered will include informed consent, research ethics, individual and group rights, surrogate decision-making, quality of life, genetic enhancement versus gene therapy, and wrongful life. The potential impact of new and emerging technologies on the deaf community will also be discussed.
One course in philosophy or permission of the instructor
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Contact
- Bioethics Microcredential
- Reut.Beckman@gallaudet.edu
