STS 2051

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STS 2051
Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024.

In the rapidly changing world of healthcare, complex ethical issues arise from interpersonal interactions between patients and clinicians to broad controversies that propel medicine into headline news. This course will examine ethical challenges in contemporary medicine, healthcare, and biomedical research from the bedside to health policy. Using case-vignettes, news stories, narratives, and readings from the healthcare, ethics, and social science literature we will examine issues from multiple vantage points. A range of topics will be explored including the patient-clinician relationship, heath care decision-making, issues at the beginning and end-of-life, technological advances, human experimentation, healthcare systems, and distributive justice. The course will also examine the fluidity of normative ethical boundaries, and how context and point of reference influence our perceptions of and approach to ethical issues. 

When Offered Fall.

Permission Note Intended for: upperclassmen; first-years with permission of instructor.

Distribution Category (ETM-AS, KCM-AS, SCD-AS)

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BSOC 2051

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5476 STS 2051   LEC 001

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    First-Year students must have permission of instructor to enroll.

  •  5477 STS 2051   DIS 201

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5478 STS 2051   DIS 202

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    • F McGraw Hall 366
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023

    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5479 STS 2051   DIS 203

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5480 STS 2051   DIS 204

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5481 STS 2051   DIS 205

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5482 STS 2051   DIS 206

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5483 STS 2051   DIS 207

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    • F McGraw Hall 215
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023

    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  5484 STS 2051   DIS 208

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person