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This course analyzes various moral problems in health care from Christian (Catholic and Protestant), Jewish, and Islamic theological perspectives with reference to salient influences from philosophical ethics. In addition to theology and philosophy, the course material engages the disciplines of medicine, law, politics, public policy, and global health. The interdisciplinary nature of the course calls upon students to think constructively about some of the major debates in bioethics today: end of life care, maternal-fetal relations, genetics and human enhancements, research ethics, and health care access on local, national, and international scales.