TH 512 - Catholic Medical Bioethics

• Assignments: Varied throughout the term
• Interactivity: Discussion Boards
• Final Assessment: Final Project

• Identify and explain the relation of Catholic identity in the context of bioethics, as it relates to the moral life and the idea of personhood.
• Understand and recognize diverse ethical systems and bioethical principles as applied to case studies, with particular attention to approaches that do not harmonize with human dignity or Divine Revelation.
• Critically analyze and apply Catholic bioethical directives to contemporary issues such as fertility and maternal care, procured abortion, reproductive technologies, genetic testing, transhumanism, suffering, end of life care, and death.
• Understand and apply certain principles of the health care practice to specific situations, including the concepts of consent, capacity and competency, along with privacy and confidentiality.
• Address critically and articulate a rational pastoral response within the exponentially growing field of bioethics to various threats to the human person as created imago Dei. as they are confronted in a pluralistic society of diverse goals and competing ethical systems.