Biomedical Ethics

This subject is not offered in 2008.

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

It is University policy to take all reasonable steps to minimise the impact of disability upon academic study, and reasonable adjustments will be made to enhance a student's participation in the University's programs. Students who feel their disability may impact on meeting the requirements of this subject are encouraged to discuss this matter with a Faculty Student Adviser and Student Equity and Disability Support: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/disability

The development and increasing prestige of modern medicine continues to generate ethical controversy. This subject will provide a way of making sense of these controversies: it will consider the nature of health, illness and disease, and discuss a number of particular issues, possibly including the status of mental illness, disability, abortion, genetic screening and modification, euthanasia and death.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• develop the ability to analyse and critique arguments;

• be able to think and write rigorously, imaginatively and coherently on issues of public controversy;

• have an appreciation of the way in which philosophical theory can inform reasoned discussion of matters of ethical importance and public controversy.

Previously available as Issues in Biomedical Ethics. Students who have completed Issues in Biomedical Ethics are not eligible to enrol in this subject.