PHIL 403 - Medical Ethics

(3 units)

Prerequisites: Completion of at least 60 units; score of 11 or higher on the GWAR Placement Examination or completion of the necessary portfolio course that is a prerequisite for a GWAR Writing Intensive Course.
Covers main areas of bioethics: reproductive rights and liberties, definitions of health, disease, and disability, end of life care, distribution of health care, goals of health care. Philosophical texts, journal articles from medical humanities, ethics, medicine, and case studies used.

Both grading options.

General Education: Upper Division C - Arts and Humanities, Upper Division D - Social Sciences & Citizenship, Writing Intensive