ATS2637 · Global bioethics

Overview

The unit investigates bioethical issues related to global justice, global commerce (e.g. market-driven border crossings of biomedical professionals, patients, and human body parts and tissues), exploitation, commodification, human rights, and the responsibilities of developed nations towards developing nations. Specific topics explored in this unit may include: fair allocation of scarce medical resources (e.g. access to affordable medicines in the developing world); medical and reproductive tourism; the ethics of international markets in human organs and other body parts; the ethics of international commercial surrogacy; the ethics of human egg and embryo trading; the migration of medical professionals; the ethics of research conducted on poor people in developing countries; and Ebola in Africa.

Areas of study: Bioethics Human rights International studies

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Familiarity with the range and nature of topics in global bioethics;
2. Familiarity with the major ethical concepts and arguments used in discussing and resolving issues in global bioethics;
3. Skills enabling them to critically analyse key ethical and policy issues related to topics in global bioethics;
4. The ability to make informed judgments about these ethical and policy issues.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.