Playing God: The Rock Opera That Endeavors to Become a Bioethics Education Tool

This article describes and introduces a new innovative tool for bioethics education: a rock opera on the ethics of genetics written by two academics and a drummer legend. The origin of the idea, the characters and their development, and the themes and approaches as well as initial responses to the m...

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Authors: Takala, Tuija (Author) ; Häyry, Matti (Author) ; Laing, Laurence (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2014
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2014, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 188-199
Further subjects:B popularizing science
B Music
B Genetics
B bioethics education
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Summary:This article describes and introduces a new innovative tool for bioethics education: a rock opera on the ethics of genetics written by two academics and a drummer legend. The origin of the idea, the characters and their development, and the themes and approaches as well as initial responses to the music and the show are described, and the various educational usages are explored.
ISSN:1469-2147
Contains:Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0963180113000728