STS 2051

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STS 2051
Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine

Course information provided by the 2018-2019 Catalog.

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.


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

Distribution Category (KCM-AS)

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

  •  8667 STS 2051   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

    Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  8668 STS 2051   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  8669 STS 2051   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  8670 STS 2051   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  8671 STS 2051   DIS 204

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  8672 STS 2051   DIS 205

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  8673 STS 2051   DIS 206

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  8674 STS 2051   DIS 207

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  8675 STS 2051   DIS 208

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Department Consent Required (Add)