Programs & Courses

Graduate Courses

B H B H 536 Research Ethics and Regulation

Explores the ethical foundations, principles and concepts, and U.S. laws related to the conduct of research with human subjects. Required for...
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B H B H 550 Critical Race Theory and Medicine

Understanding race and racism, their applicability to medicine, and their effects on marginalized communities. Explores the necessities of...
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B H B H 530 Epidemics and the Politics of Blame: Eugenic and Racial Logics in Shaping U.S. Health Policy

Explores how social inequality affects both public sentiment and public health measures during epidemics. Students develop a critical...
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B H B H 510 The Humanities in Medicine

The humanities offer important perspectives on the nature and practice of clinical medicine. Focuses on the intersection of multiple...
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B H 650 Bioethics Teaching Clerkship

This course affords graduate students a professional development opportunity to build skills that lay the groundwork for becoming an expert...
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B H 588 Global Perspectives in Bioethics

This course examines problems in bioethics from diverse global standpoints, including East Asian, Sub-Saharan African and Western. Our...
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B H 574 Justice in Health Care

This course is an examination of the ethical problem of allocating scarce medical resources. We will emphasize the fundamental principles of...
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B H 562 Ethical Issues in Pediatrics

This course provides a survey of contemporary ethical issues that arise in the clinical and research environment when children are involved,...
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B H 556 Social Justice and Health

This course examines the moral grounds for the view that social inequalities in health are unjust using contemporary literature from moral...
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B H 552 Advanced Qualitative Methods

Examines and compares phenomenology, discourse analysis, and grounded theory. Reviews the history of ideas and critically reads examples of...
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B H 544 Ethical Implications of Emerging Biotechnology

This course introduces students to select biotechnology innovations and invites consideration of the ethical and policy implications...
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B H 535 Medical Ethics & Jurisprudence

This course examines the relationship between bioethics and law. Reviews the basic concepts of both disciplines; their theoretical and...
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B H 502 Ethical Theory

This course studies the major normative ethical theories, including both teleological and deontological approaches. We emphasize moral...
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B H 596 Master's Research Project

This course entails a research project culminating in a scholarly paper suitable for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. MA...
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B H 527 Social Science Research Methods

This course introduces students to research methods in bioethics, ranging from qualitative to quantitative: interviews, focus groups, surveys...
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Undergrad Courses

B H 474 Justice in Health Care

This course is an examination of the ethical problem of allocating scarce medical resources. We will emphasize the fundamental principles of...

B H 456 Social Justice and Health

This course examines the moral grounds for the view that social inequalities in health are unjust using contemporary literature from moral...

B H 444 Ethical Implications of Emerging Biotechnology

This course introduces students to select biotechnology innovations and invites consideration of the ethical and policy implications...

B H 421 History of Eugenics

This course examines the history of ideas, policies, and practices associated with eugenics and human genetics from the late nineteenth...

B H 488 Global Perspectives in Bioethics

This course examines problems in bioethics from diverse global standpoints, including East Asian, Sub-Saharan African and Western. Our...

B H 402 Ethical Theory

This course studies the major normative ethical theories, including both teleological and deontological approaches. We emphasize moral...

B H 311 Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine

This course offers a case-based approach to ethical topics in medicine, such as abortion, genetic testing, physician-assisted death, and...

B H 201 Population Bioethics

This course introduces students to bioethical questions that arise in public health, population health, and global health, situating ethical...