HISC 116. History of Bioethics (4 units)
Link to catalog page: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/HIST.html#hisc116
Description
The story behind the postwar rise of bioethics—medical scandals breaking in the mass media, the development of novel technologies for saving and prolonging life, the emergence of new diseases, the unprecedented scope for manipulation opened up by biology.
Prerequisite courses
HISC 116 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have HISC 116 as a prerequisite.