Course Description

Law-5332 Comparative Bioethics and the Law: 2 hours

This course utilizes a comparative legal and transcultural bioethical analytical approach in studying and examining a range of topics which an ever-increasing number of nation states around the world must address. These topics include the legal, bioethical, medical, and societal issues involving human medical experimentation, informed consent, the definition of life, physician-assisted suicide and active euthanasia, organ procurement and distribution, contraception and sterilization, abortion, assisted reproductive technologies, surrogacy, human cloning, embryonic stem cell research, and human genetics. The course provides an overview of ethical theories, reviews the Western “principlist” orientation to biomedical ethics, and chronicles the history of the development of biomedical ethics.

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