Ethical Issues in Medicine

This topic covers some of the important issues in medicine that have a strong ethical component. It includes new science, including stem cells and cloning.

Two important new sets of how science works ideas are also introduced. It covers the way in which new scientific findings are published and then checked by others from ‘the scientific community’ and the use of ethical principles in making decisions about the use of animals or embryos from ’making decisions’.

The topic provides opportunity to develop argument skills and other discussion skills.

Last updated: 1 May 2008