BSOC 2051

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BSOC 2051
Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2016-2017.

In today's rapidly changing world of health and medicine, complex ethical issues arise in many contexts from the private, interpersonal interactions between doctor and patient to the broad, mass-mediated controversies that make medicine into headline news. This course examines ethical problems and policy issues that rise in contemporary medicine, health care, and biomedical research. Tools for ethical research are applied to a variety of topics and fundamental questions in bioethics. Perspectives from social science, history, and law also inform the course, which will consider ethical issues in their social and institutional context. We will explore problems that arise in a number of substantive areas, including the doctor-patient relationship, end-of-life decision making, distributive justice and health care, human experimentation, reproductive technology, public health, and human genetics. The course will also examine the relatively new field of bioethics itself, raising questions about what issues count as ethical ones and exploring the role of ethical expertise in contemporary societies. This course is also designated as a University Course.  Please visit blogs.cornell.edu/universitycourses/ for further information.

When Offered Fall.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: senior, junior, and sophomore students.

Distribution Category (KCM-AS)

Comments A University Course - This class highlights cross-disciplinary dialogue and debate.

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Syllabi: none

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

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16464 BSOC 2051   LEC 001

  • First-Year students not admitted into course.

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  • 16465 BSOC 2051   DIS 201

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  • 16466 BSOC 2051   DIS 202

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  • 16467 BSOC 2051   DIS 203

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  • 16468 BSOC 2051   DIS 204

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  • 16469 BSOC 2051   DIS 205

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  • 16470 BSOC 2051   DIS 206

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  • 16471 BSOC 2051   DIS 207

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  • 16472 BSOC 2051   DIS 208

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