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Bioethics for Beginners (Online) 
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Bioethics for Beginners (Online)
 at 
Oxford University 
Overview

Gain a comprehensive overview of the Bioethics principles and concepts

Duration

10 weeks

Total fee

26,000

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

Course Level

UG Certificate

Bioethics for Beginners (Online)
 at 
Oxford University 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from Oxford university
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Bioethics for Beginners (Online)
 at 
Oxford University 
Course details

What are the course deliverables?
  • The ability to think philosophically
  • The ability to describe key issues in bioethics
  • The ability to identify arguments for and against various positions in bioethics
  • The ability to construct their own arguments about the issues to which they have been introduced
More about this course
  • This course give an introduction to the ethical and social implications of advances in medicine, biology, and technology - without assuming prior knowledge of the science
  • The course will introduce you to these knotty problems through guided readings, online discussion, case studies and other activities as enjoyable as they are useful
  • Among our topics will be cloning, GM (genetic modification), increases in life span, genetic differences in race and gender, genetics and human nature, clinical trials in the developing world, eugenics, private markets in organs for transplant and the ownership of human tissue

Bioethics for Beginners (Online)
 at 
Oxford University 
Curriculum

Argument and the implications of enhancing lifespan

Reproductive ethics

Absolutism and relativism I

Absolutism and relativism II

Genetics and human nature

Genetic modification

Virtue ethics and deontological ethics

Utilitarianism

Therapeutic cloning

Bioethics and the developing world

Bioethics for Beginners (Online)
 at 
Oxford University 
Entry Requirements

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  • No specific cutoff mentioned
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  • Yes

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Bioethics for Beginners (Online)
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