Bioethics

What is Bioethics?

“In virtue of being embodied creatures, and the specific kind of biological creatures we are, we face particular kinds of moral challenges: we are vulnerable to disease, we give birth, we die. All of these facets of the embodied human experience generate ethical questions, and the attempt to grapple with these questions is what we call bioethics.”
-Maggie Little, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown.

The Department of Philosophy offers a Bioethics track in the Philosophy major , and also a stand alone minor in Bioethics . Students interested in this field should contact Professor Rivka Weinberg for guidance. Note: Students who pursue the Bioethics track in the major may not also declare a Bioethics minor.

For details about these programs, see the following sections of the Scripps Catalog:

Bioethics Minor

Bioethics track in the Philosophy major