BSOC 2051

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BSOC 2051
Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine

Course information provided by the 2014-2015 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. This course is also designated as a University Course.  Please visit blogs.cornell.edu/universitycourses/ for further information.


Distribution Category (KCM-AS)

When Offered Spring.

Comments A University Course - This class highlights cross-disciplinary dialogue and debate.

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Syllabi: none

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

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7707 BSOC 2051   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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  •  7710 BSOC 2051   DIS 201

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  •  7715 BSOC 2051   DIS 202

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  •  7717 BSOC 2051   DIS 203

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  •  7719 BSOC 2051   DIS 204

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  •  7721 BSOC 2051   DIS 205

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  •  7723 BSOC 2051   DIS 206

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  •  7725 BSOC 2051   DIS 207

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  •  7727 BSOC 2051   DIS 208

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