AB-013-BE

Global BioEthics

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Duration
12-week, 80% Online
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Credits
3 Credit Hours
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Term
Summer
Enrollment
Expected Summer 2027

📖 Course Overview

The Global Bioethics course will equip students with the knowledge and critical thinking skills necessary to identify, analyze, and address the complex ethical, social, and legal issues arising from advancements in the life sciences, medicine, and technology in a globalized and multicultural context.

🔑 Key Topics Covered

Introduction to Clinical Ethics

Doctor-patient relationship, informed consent, truth-telling, medical malpractice, and decision-making

Introduction to Research Ethics

Responsible conduct of research involving human subjects and animals, IRBs, international guidelines, scientific integrity

Health Law, Policy, and Bioethics

Legal frameworks related to healthcare finance, public health regulations, medical product regulation, and intellectual property

Environmental, Animal Ethics and Justice

Moral relationship between humans and the non-human world, climate change, biodiversity, animal welfare

Ethics and Regulation in Human Subject Research
Emerging Technologies

Legal and social implications of genetics, genomics, neuroethics, AI in healthcare, cloning, and human enhancement

Public Health and Social Justice

Global health equity, health disparities, resource allocation, health and human rights, ethical considerations during pandemics

Cross-Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives

Philosophical, theological, and cultural perspectives to foster globally aware ethical reasoning

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