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Instructors: Kelly A Dhru
Event type:
Lecture
Displayed in timetable as:
Topics in Bioethics,
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
2,0
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
5 | 20
Registration group: englische FS-Veranstaltungen
Comments/contents:
Should genome editing in humans embryos be legally permissible? What, if anything, is wrong with
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.
Learning objectives:
The aim of this course is to put forward the ethical questions arising from the emerging biotechnologies into the legal context.
Didactic concept:
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 (although, like the technologies, the discussions, too, will be somewhat regulated), and will foster critical thinking and argumentative skills of the participating students.
Additional examination information:
Essay of 2000 words, Group Presentations
“The certificate may only be acquired, if absence does not exceed 20%
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