BSOC 2051

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BSOC 2051
Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

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. 

When Offered Fall.

Distribution Category (ETM-AS, SCD-AS) (D-AG, KCM-AG)

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Syllabi: none

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

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  5201 BSOC 2051   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Prentice, R

  • 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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  •  5202 BSOC 2051   DIS 201

    • F
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Prentice, R

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  •  5203 BSOC 2051   DIS 202

    • F
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Prentice, R

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  •  5204 BSOC 2051   DIS 203

    • F
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Prentice, R

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  •  5205 BSOC 2051   DIS 204

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    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Prentice, R

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  •  5206 BSOC 2051   DIS 205

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    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Prentice, R

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

  •  5207 BSOC 2051   DIS 206

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    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Prentice, R

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  •  5208 BSOC 2051   DIS 207

    • F
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Prentice, R

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  •  5209 BSOC 2051   DIS 208

    • F
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Prentice, R

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