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Program Details

The program details for PHIL 235 - Biomedical Ethics are as follows:

Course Description

This course is primarily concerned with contemporary biomedical debates, many of which are of current social and political significance: euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, patients' rights, animal experimentation, organ donation and transplantation, palliative care, abortion, genetic engineering, and new reproductive technologies.

Semester

• Winter (January 12 - April 13, 2026)

Instructor

Please refer to the Course Outline below.

Program

• Undergraduate, 3 credits

Required Course Material Fee

• $54.71 CAD Course material refers to all content that is needed to be licensed, acquired, or leased for the purpose of offering the online course.
  This could include the electronic version of a textbook (or parts of it), images, articles, animations, audio, and/or video.
  This material has been deemed essential for the course at the request of the instructor and/or content provider.
  This fee is paid by students at the time of the retrieval of their eConcordia course and is in addition to the regular tuition that they pay to the university for the enrolment in the credit course.

Prerequisite

• Students who have received credit for PHIZ235 may not take this course for credit.
  • Students must not have taken the following course: PHIL330.

Book

• Fisher, Johnna. Biomedical Ethics: a Canadian Focus. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press: Canada, 2018

Registration Information

Concordia students must register for this course in their Student Hub. It is strongly recommended that they consult Concordia's class schedule prior to enrolling in order to be aware of any registration restrictions. Once registered, students must then sign up for an eConcordia account to access the course material.

Course Outline

Disclaimer: Information regarding the eConcordia course found on this page may change without notice. For the most recent course list, visit the Student Hub. Furthermore, if this represents the initial offering of the course, no course outline will be available until the start of the first active semester.