Description: (Same as Society and Genetics M166.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Should parents choose to have abortion if their fetus will likely have disability? Should person decide to end their own life through physician-aided dying? Is disability form of human variation we can live well with, disease we should eliminate, or mistake we should cut out of genetic code? Study of ethics of health and disability with critical discussions of topics including human reproduction, genetic manipulation, and end-of-life treatment and care. Consideration of concepts such as freedom, kinship, dignity, advocacy, equal rights, and good life to challenge how we think of modern humanity, structure of our world, and how we live our lives. P/NP or letter grading.

Units: 4.0