RS 282 - Catholic Bioethics

Institution:

Saint Vincent College

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Description:

At the outset of his papacy, Pope John Paul II warned that ethics must keep pace with technology. As we read daily of emerging medical technologies, we know that a daunting challenge lies before us all. Such technologies have great capacity for good, but also great capacity for evil. This course will take up specific issues in bioethics of special concern to marriage and family namely (1) The laboratory generation of human life. (2) Ethical reasons why non-marital ways of generating new human life are intrinsically immoral. (3) Controversy surrounding the transfer of frozen embryo in the womb. (4)The beginning of human life and abortion. (5) Experimentation on human subjects. (6) Euthanasia and the care of the dying, with particular attention to determining the criteria for withholding/ withdrawing treatment and applying these criteria especially to persons alleged to be in the persistent vegetative state. Three credits.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.stvincent.edu

Phone Number:

(724) 539-9761

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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