BSOC 2051

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BSOC 2051
Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 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 Requirements (ETH-AG, D-AG, KCM-AG), (ETM-AS, SCD-AS)

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

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  3624 BSOC 2051   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment limited to: seniors, juniors, and sophomores; first-year students by permission of instructor. If you are unable to enroll, please add yourself to the waitlist: https://forms.gle/m9vRqvn6tSwrPsoL9.

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  •  3625 BSOC 2051   DIS 201

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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  •  3626 BSOC 2051   DIS 202

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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  •  3627 BSOC 2051   DIS 203

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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  •  3628 BSOC 2051   DIS 204

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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  •  3629 BSOC 2051   DIS 205

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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  •  3630 BSOC 2051   DIS 206

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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  •  3631 BSOC 2051   DIS 207

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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  •  3632 BSOC 2051   DIS 208

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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