Course curriculum
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Section 1 - Introduction
- Lecture 1 - Introduction FREE PREVIEW
- Assignment Lecture 1: Please introduce yourself
- Assignment Lecture 1: What is bioethics?
- Assignment Lecture 1: A real-life situation - Part 1
- Assignment Lecture 1: A real-life situation - Part 2
- Assignment Lecture 1: Rhetoric is a very powerful tool
- Assignment Lecture 1: Why is rhetoric so powerful, so persuasive?
- Resources Lecture 1: Downloads and links
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Section 2 - What does it mean to be human?
- Lecture 2 - To be human
- Assignment Lecture 2: How did it make you feel?
- Assignment Lecture 2: Robert Rowland Smith on what it means to be human
- Assignment Lecture 2: Read and comment. (Warning: delicate/stressful/upsetting/emotionally draining.)
- Assignment Lecture 2: Is Juliana Wetmore a work of art?
- Assignment Lecture 2: Needing others, to survive as humans FREE PREVIEW
- Lecture 3 - What about animals?
- Assignment Lecture 3: Feel-good videos and documentaries!
- Quiz Lecture 3: Which of the two pigeon documentaries did you watch? FREE PREVIEW
- Resources Lecture 3: Links
- Lecture 4 - Respecting animals
- Assignment Lecture 4: The Mahard Egg Farm story FREE PREVIEW
- Assignment Lecture 4: Egg alternatives
- Assignment Lecture 4: The rights of animals
- Assignment Lecture 4: How to deal with Florida's wild bears
- Assignment Lecture 4: Human-animal chimeras
- Resources Lecture 4: Links
- Lecture 5 - Editing people out FREE PREVIEW
- Assignment Lecture 5: Please don't edit me out
- Resources Lecture 5: Downloads and links
- Assignment Lecture 5: A thinking exercise... FREE PREVIEW
- Assignment Lecture 5: The old eugenics
- Assignment Lecture 5: Sue Austin
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Section 3 - Disabilities and diversity
- Lecture 6 - Costs of disabilities
- Resources Lecture 6 : Downloads and links
- Assignment Lecture 6: Letting people flourish
- Assignment Lecture 6: How the costs argument is sometimes (falsely) used FREE PREVIEW
- Assignment Lecture 6: What does it look like in practice?
- Assignment Lecture 6: The costs of healthcare
- Lecture 7 - Hindrances created by society
- Resources Lecture 7: Downloads and links
- Assignment Lecture 7: Courageous solutions
- Lecture 8 - Why we may need diversity
- Resources Lecture 8: Links
- Assignment Lecture 8: Other examples
- Lecture 9 - Stigmas FREE PREVIEW
- Assignment Lecture 9: Put your thinking hat on!
- Assignment Lecture 9: Differences can be scary
- Assignment Lecture 9: The pain stigma
- Assignment Lecture 9: Parkinson's disease FREE PREVIEW
- Assignment Lecture 9: The migrant stigma, a personal experience
- Resources Lecture 9: Downloads and links
- Lecture 10 - Mental health versus physical health
- Resources Lecture 10: Downloads and links
- Assignment Lecture 10: Mental health stigma. How to tackle it?
- Lecture 11 - Gender is a dial, not a switch
- Resources Lecture 11: Downloads and links
- Lecture 12 - Skin tone is not black and white
- Resources Lecture 12: Downloads and links
- Assignment Lecture 12: Racial identity, what is it? FREE PREVIEW
- Lecture 13 - Trends of emancipation
- Assignment Lecture 13: Spot the errors!
- Assignment Lecture 13: When complaints are up, what does it mean?
- Resources Lecture 13: Links
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Section 4 - Humans' rights
- Lecture 14 - Humans' rights, where do they come from?
- Resources Lecture 14: Downloads and links
- Assignment Lecture 14: How the Universal Declaration of Human Rights came about
- Quiz Lecture 14: Test your learning
- Assignment Lecture 14: Internet access as a human right? FREE PREVIEW
- Assignment Lecture 14: Man of the soil...
- Assignment Lecture 14: Veganism and human rights FREE PREVIEW
- Lecture 15 - Should prisoners be allowed to vote?
- Resources Lecture 15: Downloads and links
- Assignment Lecture 15: What about it? Should they be allowed to vote?
- Assignment Lecture 15: UN inspections in the UK
- Lecture 16 - Should we ban tasers? FREE PREVIEW
- Resources Lecture 16: Links FREE PREVIEW
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Section 5 - The new eugenics
- Lecture 17 - Should we "erase" certain people?
- Resources Lecture 17: Downloads and links
- Assignment Lecture 17: Are designer babies okay?
- Assignment Lecture 17: Changing yourself FREE PREVIEW
- Assignment Lecture 17: Should we ban certain practices?
- Assignment Lecture 17: Your opinion is requested
- Lecture 18 - What is "a life not worth living"?
- Assignment Lecture 18: Feedback, please!
- Resources Lecture 18: Downloads and links
- Lecture 19 - Are tall people better than short people?
- Resources Lecture 19: Downloads and links
- Assignment Lecture 19: The wish for “perfect” children is very real
- Lecture 20 - It’s the fashion, stupid!
- Assignment Lecture 20: Fashion, cosmetic surgery and health
- Assignment Lecture 20: Breast fashion
- Resources Lecture 20: Downloads and links
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Section 6 - What is "progress"?
- Lecture 21 - The new eugenics, revisited
- Assignment Lecture 21: Gestational surrogacy in Spain, and elsewhere
- Assignment Lecture 21: Gestational surrogacy in other countries
- Assignment Lecture 21: When surrogacy goes wrong
- Resources Lecture 21: Downloads and links
- Lecture 22 - Climate change, climate change deniers and other threats to the planet
- Assignment Lecture 22: The climate change deniers
- Assignment Lecture 22: Urban heat islands FREE PREVIEW
- Resources Lecture 22: Links
- Lecture 23 - Why didn’t we foresee this?
- Assignment Lecture 23: Environmental disasters create many victims FREE PREVIEW
- Assignment Lecture 23: How badly we sometimes mess up
- Resources Lecture 23: Downloads and links
- Lecture 24 - Geo-ethics
- Assignment Lecture 24: Ethics in the earth sciences FREE PREVIEW
- Resources Lecture 24: Links
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Section 7 - How to move forward after this course
- Lecture 25 - How to move forward? FREE PREVIEW
- Assignment Lecture 25: What motivates and inspires people like you FREE PREVIEW
- Assignment Lecture 25: Which ones of the books that I mentioned in the course interest you most?
- Resources Lecture 25: Links
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