Lehrende: Kelly A Dhru
Veranstaltungsart: Vorlesung
Anzeige im Stundenplan: Emerging biotechn.
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Credits: 2,0
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: 5 | 20
Anmeldegruppe: englische FS-Veranstaltungen
Weitere Informationen: Niveau B1
Kommentare/ Inhalte: Should genome editing in humans embryos be legally permissible? What, if anything, is wrong with the enhancements of humans, and especially, the cognitive enhancement of the human brain? Should the law allow human organs be “grown” through the creation of human-animal chimeras? Do animals have a right not to be experimented upon? While on the one hand the emerging biotechnologies aim to promote the health and well-being of the society, they also raise serious legal, ethical, and regulatory challenges on the other hand. These legal and ethical questions are no longer restricted to the realm of the “hypothetical”. With the unsurpassed growth in the emerging biotechnologies, these are some crucial questions that the current legal systems have to battle. The aim of this course is to put forward the ethical questions arising from the emerging biotechnologies into the legal context. This course will provide an avenue for the students to engage in the debates surrounding questions of the legality and permissibility of these technologies, and we will also ask if these technologies challenge our foundational assumptions about law and legal actors, and especially about the nature of the relationship between law and ethics. The course will be primarily discussion-based and will foster critical thinking and argumentative skills of the participating students.
