STS 2051

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STS 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: BSOC 2051

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  3633 STS 2051   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    First-Year students must have permission of instructor to enroll. Class enrollment is limited by College and expected graduation year. If you cannot enroll or if class says "Needs Department Consent" please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/m9vRqvn6tSwrPsoL9 to be put on the waitlist. Emailing us will NOT get you put on the waitlist. Class may appear open even if you are not allowed to enroll.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  3634 STS 2051   DIS 201

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Class enrollment is limited by College and expected graduation year. If you cannot enroll or if class says "Needs Department Consent" please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/m9vRqvn6tSwrPsoL9 to be put on the waitlist. Emailing us will NOT get you put on the waitlist. Class may appear open even if you are not allowed to enroll.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  3635 STS 2051   DIS 202

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Class enrollment is limited by College and expected graduation year. If you cannot enroll or if class says "Needs Department Consent" please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/m9vRqvn6tSwrPsoL9 to be put on the waitlist. Emailing us will NOT get you put on the waitlist. Class may appear open even if you are not allowed to enroll.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  3636 STS 2051   DIS 203

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Class enrollment is limited by College and expected graduation year. If you cannot enroll or if class says "Needs Department Consent" please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/m9vRqvn6tSwrPsoL9 to be put on the waitlist. Emailing us will NOT get you put on the waitlist. Class may appear open even if you are not allowed to enroll.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  3637 STS 2051   DIS 204

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Class enrollment is limited by College and expected graduation year. If you cannot enroll or if class says "Needs Department Consent" please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/m9vRqvn6tSwrPsoL9 to be put on the waitlist. Emailing us will NOT get you put on the waitlist. Class may appear open even if you are not allowed to enroll.

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  •  3638 STS 2051   DIS 205

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Class enrollment is limited by College and expected graduation year. If you cannot enroll or if class says "Needs Department Consent" please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/m9vRqvn6tSwrPsoL9 to be put on the waitlist. Emailing us will NOT get you put on the waitlist. Class may appear open even if you are not allowed to enroll.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  3639 STS 2051   DIS 206

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Class enrollment is limited by College and expected graduation year. If you cannot enroll or if class says "Needs Department Consent" please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/m9vRqvn6tSwrPsoL9 to be put on the waitlist. Emailing us will NOT get you put on the waitlist. Class may appear open even if you are not allowed to enroll.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  3640 STS 2051   DIS 207

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Class enrollment is limited by College and expected graduation year. If you cannot enroll or if class says "Needs Department Consent" please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/m9vRqvn6tSwrPsoL9 to be put on the waitlist. Emailing us will NOT get you put on the waitlist. Class may appear open even if you are not allowed to enroll.

    Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  3641 STS 2051   DIS 208

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Prentice, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Class enrollment is limited by College and expected graduation year. If you cannot enroll or if class says "Needs Department Consent" please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/m9vRqvn6tSwrPsoL9 to be put on the waitlist. Emailing us will NOT get you put on the waitlist. Class may appear open even if you are not allowed to enroll.

    Department Consent Required (Add)