What is bioethics? | Philosophy, Medicine, and Clinical Ethics

Students at the University of Oregon learn how bioethics can bring some ease to difficult situations that occur in hospitals everyday. From the philosophy classroom to the hospital (PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend, Springfield, Oregon) Professor Nicolae Morar and John Holmes (Director of Ethics for PeaceHealth) present students with some of life's most difficult questions.

Would it drive you crazy to hear your mechanical heart valve? How would witnessing open-heart surgery change your definition of being alive? Does quality of life affect the desire to be alive?

University of Oregon students in Professor Nicolae Morar's Philosophy 410 class spend the winter term learning about ethical issues that surface in a medical setting — by turning a hospital into their classroom. Includes interviews with Dr. Rajeev Alexander and Clinical Ethicist Laura Lyn Hosford (BS '15).

[Columbina]

What does this mean? In more simple terms?

[ding]

Why does non consensual non therapeutic infant circumcision still happen?

[kylelavelle]

why does the camera follow the guy with the very strange hairline? Why do people sound like they are from mars? ? ? ? ? ?