INQ-120 | Life and Death in Medical Ethics

Full Title: Life and Death in Medical Ethics

Topic Description:

This course is about life, in all its tangled and formative decisions. Bioethics is the particular occasion, since whether as a patient, family member, citizen, taxpayer, care-giver, pastor or other professional, each one of us makes value choices in medical care that shape ourselves and those around us. This course gives participants an opportunity to build concepts and skills to work through the involved ethical questions, particularly considering the perspective of the varied Christian tradition. Specific challenges will include cases of informed consent in research, disconnecting life support, stem cells, in-vitro-fertilization, cloning, abortion, and genetic intervention.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: November 2011