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This course does not seek to provide answers to ethical questions. Instead, the course hopes to teach students two things. First, how do you recognize ethical or moral problems in science and medicine? When something does not feel right (whether cloning, or failing to clone) — what exactly is the nature of the discomfort? What kind of tensi
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- linguistics and philosophy
- medical ethics
- ethics
- genetics
- life support
- stem cell
- gm
- genetically modified
- genetic engineering
- risk
- biomedical
- medicine
- cloning
- euthanasia
- enhancing or cheating
- abortion
- eugenics
- slippery slope
- organ transplant
- organ donor
- disease
- public health
- health care
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This course will consider the claim that there is no such thing as race, with a particular emphasis on the question whether races should be thought of as natural kinds: is our concept of race a natural kind concept? Is the term 'race' a natural kind term? If so, is Appiah right to conclude that there are no races? How should one go about "a
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- linguistics and philosophy
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- race
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- classification
- appiah
- naming
- genomics
- marriage
- intermarriage
- history of science
- dna
- eugenics
- biology
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