BSOC 2051

BSOC 2051

Course information provided by the 2019-2020 Catalog.

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. 


Distribution Category (KCM-AS)

When Offered Fall.

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: STS 2051

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8254 BSOC 2051   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  •  8255 BSOC 2051   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8256 BSOC 2051   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8257 BSOC 2051   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8258 BSOC 2051   DIS 204

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8259 BSOC 2051   DIS 205

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8260 BSOC 2051   DIS 206

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8261 BSOC 2051   DIS 207

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  8262 BSOC 2051   DIS 208

  • Instruction Mode: In Person