STS 2051

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STS 2051
Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2019-2020.

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.

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Syllabi: none

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

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8263 STS 2051   LEC 001

  • First-Year students must have permission of instructor to enroll.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  8264 STS 2051   DIS 201

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  8265 STS 2051   DIS 202

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  8266 STS 2051   DIS 203

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  8267 STS 2051   DIS 204

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  8268 STS 2051   DIS 205

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  8269 STS 2051   DIS 206

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  8270 STS 2051   DIS 207

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  8271 STS 2051   DIS 208

  • Department Consent Required (Add)