Philosophy (PHIL) 335
Biomedical Ethics (Revision 1)
Revision 1 is closed for registrations, replaced by current version
Delivery Mode: Individualized study
Credits: 3
Area of Study: Humanities
Prerequisite: None
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
PHIL 335 has a Challenge for Credit option.
Overview
This course provides an introduction to selected ethical problems associated with health and health care in Canada and more globally. For instance, how should we allocate resources to health care, as compared with other initiatives influencing our health at the population level (education, social services, preventive public health measures)? What is the character of morally appropriate therapeutic relationships? How should we regulate new reproductive technologies? What particular moral problems are associated with abortion, euthanasia, and research on human subjects? Students will become familiar with traditional ethical theories and some recent challenges to them. Through readings, cases, and written work, students will learn to consider applications of theoretical approaches to current moral dilemmas in health and health care, and will develop skills necessary to critically analyse new developments.
Outline
Unit 1: Introduction: Ethical Dimensions of Health and Health Care
Unit 2: Ethical Theory and Moral Reasoning
Unit 3: Resource Allocation
Unit 4: Health Care Relationships
Unit 5: Informed Consent
Unit 6: Ethical Dimensions of Research on Humans
Unit 7: Abortion
Unit 8: Reproduction and Genetics
Unit 9: Death and Dying
Unit 10: Broadening the Agenda of Health Ethics
Evaluation
To receive credit for PHIL 335, you must submit every piece of written work and achieve a course composite grade of at least “D” (50 percent). The weighting of the composite grade is as follows:
Tutor-marked Exercise | Case Study | Final Examination | Total |
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20% | 40% | 40% | 100% |
The final examination for this course must be taken online with an AU-approved exam invigilator at an approved invigilation centre. It is your responsibility to ensure your chosen invigilation centre can accommodate online exams. For a list of invigilators who can accommodate online exams, visit the Exam Invigilation Network.
To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.
Course Materials
Textbook
Boetzkes, Elisabeth and Wilfrid J. Waluchow, eds. 2000. Readings in Health Care Ethics. Peterborough: Broadview Press.
Other Materials
The course materials include a study guide, a student manual and a reading file.
Challenge for Credit Course Overview
The Challenge for Credit process allows students to demonstrate that they have acquired a command of the general subject matter, knowledge, intellectual and/or other skills that would normally be found in a university level course.
Full information for the Challenge for Credit can be found in the Undergraduate Calendar.
- Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Policy
- Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Procedures
Challenge Evaluation
To receive credit for the PHIL 335 challenge registration, you must achieve an overall grade of at least “D” (50 percent).
Case Study | Final Exam | Total |
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40% | 60% | 100% |
Undergraduate Challenge for Credit Course Registration Form
Athabasca University reserves the right to amend course outlines occasionally and without notice. Courses offered by other delivery methods may vary from their individualized-study counterparts.
Opened in Revision 1, February 27, 2004.
Last updated by SAS 07/07/2014 16:42:09