For basic- Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine (Basic Bioethics), Encyclopedia of Bioethics, Bioethics Briefing Book by The Hastings Center

for more info you can ref- ( which i feel good )

The New Medicine: Life and Death After Hippocrates. Crossway Books, 1991

Toward a More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs. The Free Press, 1985

Matters of Life and Death. InterVarsity Press, 1998 by Wyatt, John

Christianity and Bioethics. College Press Publishing, 1999 by Foreman, Mark

Catholic Bioethics and the Gift of Human Life by William E. May

in case of free e book you can get in Google ,,,, ,,,

and the bioethics depends on region to region ,,,,,, in India some are against to biotech, and regulations for R&D in India is different than other countries, so teaching Bioethics is bit tough job,,,, all the best :-)

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Ted Ideas worth spreading-

Paul Root Wolpe: It's time to question bio-engineering

U could show this video...it will ignite students interest in the topic.

Best of luck

Greetings,

I had bioethics as a biotechnology engineering student and one of the most important things of the subject is not about the "ethics" theory or history, which sometimes it's not so usefull. In fact, what it was really interesting in the subject of bioethics it was about the future professionals and their career, what would you do as a biotechnologist when you finish? Will you apply ethics in your researches or products? or even in laboratories or food process, we must have be aware we're doing those food researches for people, and we must do it for the wellness of all of them.

Also debates about genetic engineering and/or euthanasia are quite interesting, always charm your students, make them share ideas or opinions with strong fundaments.

Good luck!

Medically assisted procreation would also be a subject to debate with students. In France for example the recent legalization of marriage for homosexuals opens the way to such practice and this item is hardly debated

I took a semester course on ethics and the major topics were:

a) Plagiarism and intellectual property

b) Conflict of interests

c) Bioethics and patient consent

d) Sexual misconduct

e) Environmental health and safety

Case studies are always useful. The first three topics can be covered by the cases discussed below:

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i took a course of tissue culture and bioethics.

we discuss about this video:

http://www.natgeoeducationvideo.com/film/91/clone (http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/cloning-the-first-human/)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFL3P89T1Hk

http://www.ted.com/talks/sam_harris_science_can_show_what_s_right.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_root_wolpe_it_s_time_to_question_bio_engineering.html

I found this guide online maybe it will help you.

http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih9/bioethics/guide/pdf/teachers_guide.pdf

You can download from google ; bioethics: the art of decision making

Please read Peter Singer's " Practical Ethics'. That is a must.

there are many sites of bioethics; you must try in bioedge. There is an interesting book that it calls "Fritz Jahr and the foundation of global bioethics (The future of integrative bioethics). You can find it at google books.

David Suzuki, Peter Knudtson Genethics. The Ethics of Engineering Life, Stoddart Publishing

Broekman Jan, Bioetica con Rasgos Juridicos, Dilex

Jonas, Hansm Technik, Medizin und Ethik. Zur Praxis der Prinzips Verantwortung, Suhrkamp

Heler, Mario, Ciencia incierta. La producción del conocimiento

There are four aspect of bioethics

1. Theory of bioethics; the basic principle and concept of bioethics

2. Clinical ethics; the day to day moral decision making

3. Regulatory and policy bioethics; how to construct rule, law or procedure based on bioethics

4. Cultural bioethics; how to understand of bioethics based on historical context according to ideology and social as well as cultural in several country.

Which one do you want to teach ?

Hello Mr. Akhmad,

I have to teach the first part that you have mentioned & ethics from the point of view of biotechnology. One of the unit is talking about fundamentals & basics of bioethics & another unit talks about various critical matters for example genetically modified organisms & ethics, human cloning & ethics, human genome project & ethics, organ transplantation & ethics etc.

Thank you.

A good book that covers the sorts of fundamentals you mention is Case Studies in Biomedical Ethics, by Veatch, Haddad, and English. Even if you don't use it as a course text, it has a wealth of information, is very well written, and would be a good source for lecture/discussion material.

I am a graduate student in Biotechnology, and I taught medical ethics last summer. Skip the textbooks and stick to case studies. Think of the issues you want to address (organ transplant demand, IVF, bone marrow transplants in children, genetic engineering) and find an article/story for each. This is more interesting than textbooks and definitions. Also, to spark discussion of larger ideas, I would use science fiction. Movies like "GATTACA" and "The Island" illustrate far reaches of where biotechnology could possible go. The question then is, do where do we draw the line? I watched GATTACA in high school and again with my students last summer. It covers so many issues, especially genetic discrimination. Have fun teaching!

It would also be good to make sure to spend a decent amount of time listening to philosophers talk about ethics (there are plenty of online videos for this...Youtube and AcademicEarth.org are good places to start). Having approximately 20 years of experience in philosophy and several years of bioethics, from both philosophy and med school perspectives, I can say that how ethics/bioethics are taught by non-philosophers is different than how they're taught by someone with a background in philosophy. Philosophers are more rigorous in their approach...and the inverse example would also be true. You wouldn't get nearly the same level of sophistication from a philosopher discussing medical science or bioengineering as you would from someone dedicated to those disciplines.

You are on the right track for all the material but the end of bioethics teaching and learning is very tough to inculcate the value.

You should give student skill for doing fact deliberation, value deliberation, duty deliberation and test of value consistency and stringency.

Do not skip the text books and focus on case studies. 'Teaching' bioethics is getting the students to think critically for themselves. The age old philosophical ideas are current and applicable to bio-ethical issues and some use of philosophical debates can help ground and justify one's thoughts. Case studies by themselves are not very useful and can lead to an 'anything goes approach' and relativism and nihilism about values. I agree teaching bioethics on a non philosophy course is different but the underpinning aim of critical thought is not. Have a look at the current debate over the usefulness or not of 'trolley problems' and MacIntyre's paper on applied ethics is very good claiming that so called applied ethics is ethics.

Please refer Darryl R.J.Macer's Moral games for teaching Bioethics. This has many fun games to teach bioethics to the undergraduates. You can also refer other publications of Darryl R.J.Macer's contributions to bioethics

Please try integrated approach of topic specific presentation in which the students can be given topics for presentation and this can continue in the form of discussion. I have done this for the last few years at TERI University. Some of the interesting topics that we have covered recently are:

1.       Genetically modified crops and its impact

2.       Harvesting the dead: organ transplantation 

3.       Bio-weapons  

4.       Human genome project 

5.       Genetic testing: an ethical approach

6.       Ethics in synthetic biology

7.       Euthanasia- A Boon or A Bane?

These sessions are very interesting and also makes you keep abreast with the global updates.