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Program

Education Programs: Seminars for Higher Education Faculty

Period of Performance

1/1/1978 - 9/30/1978

Funding Totals

$43,500.00 (approved)
$43,500.00 (awarded)

Liberty, Equality, and Fidelity in Bioethics

FAIN: FS-10902-78

David H. Smith
Indiana University (Bloomington, IN 47405-7000)

A survey of selected topics in bioethics, giving special attention to the problems involved in formulating a consistent and fertile method in normative ethics. Discussion of types of ethical theory, experimentation on human subjects, truth-telling, special human relations, eugenics, abortion, death and dying, social values, and medical resource distribution. Special concern with fiduciary relationships as loci of value.