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700.632.01
Ethics, Policy, and Emerging Biomedical Technologies

Location
East Baltimore
Term
4th Term
Department
Berman Institute (Bioethics)
Credit(s)
3
Academic Year
2017 - 2018
Instruction Method
TBD
Class Time(s)
Thursday, 3:30 - 6:20pm
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Other Year
Next Offered
2025 - 2026
Prerequisite

None

Description
Science moves slowly and deliberately… except when it makes leaps and bounds, jumping ahead of the ethics and policy, forcing these arenas to run to play catch-up. This course will wrestle with the leaps and bounds and try to make sense of how to anticipate and respond to such rapid advances in science.
Examines the ethics and policy issues raised by emerging biomedical technologies, including stem cell science, genetics/genomics, neuroscience, and synthetic biology. Integrates primers on the relevant science with discussion of the ethics and policy issues raised by the design, conduct and integration of the science into research, clinical care and commerce.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Identify some of the ethics and policy issues raised by a range of emerging biotechnologies, and describe how these issues relate to the science itself
  2. Analyze the ethics and policy issues raised by emerging biotechnologies
  3. Discuss the similarities and differences across emerging biotechnologies in the types of ethics and policy challenges they raise in the contexts of research, clinical care and commerce
Enrollment Restriction
Enrollment priority given to MBE students
Special Comments

Course meets in Deering Hall; LLC Room