Pre-Doctoral Research
The Case
Department of Bioethics has established the nation's first
doctoral program offering the Ph.D. in Bioethics. This program,
which hosted its inaugural class in 2004, offers training in
both the empirical and analytic methods relevant to the study
of ethical issues in the life sciences.
In addition, the University has nationally prominent graduate
programs in Nursing, Medical Anthropology, and Genetics, as
well as a genetic counseling training program, a master's program
in Bioethics, a joint bioethics MA/JD program with the School
of Law, and joint MA/MBA program with the Weatherhead school.
This semester, courses which are relevant to CGREAL work include
Foundations
in Bioethics II, which has a unit on "Issues in Genetics
and Genomics". Topics covered are:
Eugenics and Genomics, Population Genetic Research and Non-Medical
Uses of Genotyping, Public Health Genetics, Pharmacogenomics,
and the Market, Predictive Testing Issues and "Genetic
Discrimination, Prenatal and Childhood Genetic Diagnosis,
Genetic Engineering, Post-Humanism, and the New Naturalism.
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