He finds the neighbor gravely ill and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken a turn for the worse. While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. Issues: research in developing countries pharmaceutical research A low-level diplomat in Kenya investigates his wife's murder and uncovers a nasty conspiracy involving a huge pharmaceutical company. Set in a New England orphanage where pregnant women come to have an abortion or to leave a child. A satirical look at the abortion debate a poor, drug-abusing woman gets caught between the Christian pro-life lobby and the pro-choice government. Issues: human cloning meaning of scientific "progress" Nazi hunter unearths a plot to resurrect the Third Reich by cloning SS officers. Issues: health and social stability public health catastrophe quarantine An epidemic of blindness ravages a city, and social bonds begin to break down. Issues: human/machine interface (cyborgs) what it means to be human An android (Robin Williams) wants to become a real man. A wealthy and successful single woman, who wants a baby but is infertile, hires a working-class woman to bear her a child. Issues: moral status of animals, animal minds and emotions A pig raised by sheepdogs learns to be a herding "dog" and escapes becoming the Christmas ham with the help of his barnyard friends.
An unlikely friendship between a single mother/waitress, a misanthropic writer, and a gay artist. Issues: human/machine interface (cyborgs) what makes the "perfect" child? Steven Spielberg movie in which a robot boy wants to become human. Al Gore's riveting documentary on global climate change. Detailed film synopses are easily available on the web (see, for example, the Internet Movie Database site ). For each title, we note which bioethics issues are explored in the film. Movies, Television Series, and Literature with a Bioethics Themeįollowing are movies of interest to those teaching or studying bioethics.
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