THEO 353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Christiaan Barnard, Human Genome Project, Bioethics
14 Feb 2016
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Outline: historical background to bioethics, cases that shaped the growth of bioethics as a discipline, a dialectic between potential and concern, some basic facts about bioethics, theological discourse and bioethics, methodology a beginning. Cases that shaped the growth of bioethics as a discipline. They decide who lives, who dies life magazine 1962 : People were dying of kidney failure and this machine could keep them alive. Problem was there were 50k people who had this issue and only 1 in 50 could be treated with this machine. They decided who would be treated and not treated. The god committee was made of 6 people who decide who lives and who dies. Henry beecher"s 1966 article published in the new england journal of. He examined 50 published articles of what he called examples of unethical studies. He said there"s a problem with research involving human subjects. They"re not being treated with dignity and respect.
