In this course, students will be introduced to a philosophical yet practical approach to some of the major medical-ethical problems facing human beings today, such as, 1) what patients should be told, 2) the nature and importance of informed consent, 3) the meaning and criteria for living, dying, and death including caring for the dying, and 4) allowing to die, mercy killing. Permeating these problems will be a study of the basis for ethical relationships among human beings through a study of what morality is, consequentialist and non-consequentialist theories of morality, and how to set up an ethical system. Special emphasis will be placed on the relationship of the professional and the well to the sick, dying, and bereaved and how the relationship of the self understands itself in relation to death throughout the life-cycle of the individual.
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