Bioethics is a modern discipline that is generally defined as the application of ethical reasoning to dilemmas in the biomedical sciences.  Bioethical issues tend to cluster at the beginning and the end of the human life span, though some issues such as justice and access to health care are important to human beings of all ages.  This survey course encourages students to use basic forms of ethical reasoning to analyze issues such as: prenatal diagnosis and the uses of genetic information, assisted reproduction, the interest rights and responsibilities of human research subjects, organ and tissue transplantation, the use of life-sustaining technologies and interfaces with euthanasia, access to scarce resources, and the extent and implications of any moral commitment to universal access to health care.  At the end of the course, students should be able to distinguish ethical dilemmas and also have an appreciation of the ways in which scientific advances have made our moral lives more complex.  (If you have taken Survey of Issues in Bioethics, do not register for this course.)