Cleveland Clinic Office of Civic Education Initiatives

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Bioethics Course

In collaboration with the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Case Western Reserve University and The MetroHealth System, this distance learning course is designed for middle and high school students to study some of today's most prevalent issues in bioethics - clinical ethics, public health ethics, research ethics, environmental ethics and pharmacy ethics. For each class, students will read articles on the topic beforehand, actively listen to a short lecture covering the important aspects and moral issues of the topic and then engage in discussions facilitated by the instructor. Courses may also include discussion of current events or popular media depictions of the day's topic. Students are required to read the assigned article before each session.

Additional required outside reading:

The following articles are required, but will not be discussed during class sessions. The purpose of these articles is to help students understand some of the issues that arise in medical research.

"The Ethics of Clinical Research", David Wendler

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/clinical-research/

"Decision-making Capacity", Louis Charland

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/decision-capacity/

Click here to view 2011 Bioethics Information.

Click here to view 2010 Bioethics Information.