Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Brief course description (Bioethics and Movies, Elective Course, YIUlman)
This course aims to enhance ethical reasoning skills through movies Robots,
farm animals, human clones, disabled individuals, and genetically ideal persons
star in a collection of movie screenplays that may attract attention to
university students more highly than a classical teaching method. This is an
innovative way in teaching ethics and to raise ethical sensitivity through this
tool.
Movies are useful medium to
narrate ethical issues in science and medicine, and to detect main issues of
bioethics in a narrative backdrop. As put by Miksanek, “Films can provide vivid
and emotionally engaging illustrations of philosophical issues” that may serve
the students to raise awareness, to perceive the ethical dilemma in a
particular situation or case, and to develop ethical reasoning skills through
the plot analysis.
Some of the examples to these
movies are as follows: I, Robot; Soylent Green; Wit; Talk to Her, The Sea
Inside, and My Life Without Me; Ikiru by director Akira Kurosawa; Gattaca; Million
Dollar Baby and so on(Bowman,2005).