Course contents
Title of the course:
The discussion on genetic enhancement.
As well as to introduce the main concepts of bioethics, the course will address the philosophical discussion on genetic engineering, through the reading of relevant essays of some Anglo-Saxon moral philosophers: S.P. Stich and M. J. Sandel.
Reccomended or required readings
For the students attending the course:
M. Sandel, Contro la perfezione. L’etica nell’età dell’ingegneria genetica, Milano, Vita e Pensiero, 2007.
S. Stich, in Il dibattito sul DNA ricombinante, in Maffettone-G. Ferranti, a cura di, Introduzione alla bioetica, Genova, Liguori, 1992, pp. 317-36.
Sergio Filippo Magni, Bioetica, Roma, Carocci, 2011.
Other students have to add:
L. Fonnesu, Storia dell’etica contemporanea. Da Kant alla filosofia analitica, Roma, Carocci, 2006, capp. 10 e 11.