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Bioethics Board Game

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What is Bioethics?

Bioethics is the study of ethical, social, and legal issues that arise in biomedicine and biomedical research. Bioethics includes medical ethics, which focuses on issues in healthcare; research ethics, which focuses issues in the conduct of research; environmental ethics, which focuses on issues pertaining to the relationship between human activities and the environment, and public health ethics, which addresses ethical issues in public health.

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Groups of 4

  1. Story/Lore Designer
  2. Rules Designer
  3. Piece/Character Designer
  4. Art/Card Designer

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What Needs to be Included?

  • Utilitarianism, Libertarianism, Egalitarianism.
  • A bioethics issue.

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Board Game Examples

Chess Monopoly Scrabble Risk Settlers of Catan

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Clue Uno Battleship Apples to Apples Yahtzee Trivial Pursuit

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Stratego Checkers Sorry! Pictionary Connect Four

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The Game of Life Candyland Trouble Chinese Checkers

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Example #1

Monopoly - Already a very libertarian game. (i.e. you do what you want with your money and property. Add a bioethic element (i.e. companies, characters, story…).

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Example #2

Operation - Already very bioethics based (i.e. surgery, the ability to manipulate a person’s biology, ect…). Add an -ism to the mix (i.e. do the augmentations help society (Util), do the augmentations only help the individual ?(Lib), do the augmentations have a social or biological advantage to making society equal? (Egal).

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Example #3

Chutes and Ladders - Incorporate both bioethic positives/negatives with -ism positives/negatives in a game of “WHO CAN REACH THE TOP FIRST!”