Bioethics: The Law, Medicine, and Ethics of Reproductive Technologies and Genetics

Description

In this course, you will learn:

• The workings of the reproductive technology sector, as well as difficulties highlighted about the purchase and sale of human reproductive materials.
• Surrogacy's legal and ethical issues.
• When things go wrong with reproductive technology, civil cases are filed: wrongful birth and wrongful death actions.
• The legislation and ethics of sperm donation, as well as sperm donors' legal position.
• Human augmentation raises ethical and legal concerns.
• Mixing human and animal genetic material: the legality and ethics.
• The ownership of human tissue and the genetic information it contains.

Syllabus:

1. Buying and Selling Reproductive Materials
2. Surrogacy
3. Wrongful Life and Wrongful Birth
4. Sperm and Egg Donation
5. Sperm Donor Anonymity
6. Enhancement
7. Human-Animal Hybrids and Patent of Human Genetic Material