700.701.11
Sex, Drugs, and Bioethics

Location
East Baltimore
Term
Summer Institute
Department
Berman Institute (Bioethics)
Credit(s)
2
Academic Year
2017 - 2018
Instruction Method
TBD
Start Date
Monday, June 12, 2017
End Date
Friday, June 16, 2017
Class Time(s)
M, Tu, W, Th, F, 9:00 - 11:50am
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Travis Rieder
Contact Name
Travis Rieder
Frequency Schedule
One Year Only
Next Offered
Only offered in 2017
Description
Everything you ever wanted to know about the moral purpose of medicine, but were afraid to ask.
Explores sex and drugs as key themes in the debates over the moral purpose of medicine. Examines ethical issues arising from uses of medical technologies in non-healing, contested, and illicit contexts. Includes topics such as sexual surgery, sex selection, human enhancement, sports doping, and recreational drug use. Encourages critical analysis and discussion of what medicine is for.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Identify the key ethical issues arising from the use of medical technologies in contexts where healing is not the primary aim
  2. Explain the social, cultural, and political causes of ethical debates about the moral purpose of medicine
  3. Apply appropriate bioethics frameworks to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of competing analyses of the ethical issues related to medical technologies
  4. Create and deliver a research project exploring and assessing an ethical issue related to the uses of medicine in non-healing, contested, and illicit contexts
Instructor Consent
No consent required
Special Comments

Students are required to complete assignments prior to the start of class. The final assignment will be due on July 16, 2017 Course meets in Deering Hall; LLC Room