Oxford Bioinformatics Programme is holding a ten-week online course called 'Ethics for Biosciences', to be held 11 May - 19 July.
The course will help students of science and working scientists to understand, reflect on and engage with some of the key ethical and social issues thrown up by biological science and technology.
Through guided readings, online discussion, case studies and other activities, participants will consider the social and ethical implications of increases in life span, cloning, genetic modification, genetic differences in race and gender, clinical trials in the developing world, eugenics, private markets in organs for transplant and the ownership of human tissue.
The course was created by Marianne Talbot, director of studies in philosophy for the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford.
