B H 509, Ethics and the Social Determinants of Health (I&S, DIV) [sln#10944] 3 cr, T473 HSB, M 2:30-4:20 [6 OPEN SEATS]
Examines ethical issues confronting healthcare workers caring for poor & minority populations, whose capacity for health and recovery from disease are compromised by social conditions in which they grow up, live, work, and age. Aims to broaden/reorient understandings of disease, patient autonomy, and clinician duties within contexts of structural inequalities related to socioeconomic status/race/ethnicity/gender/other salient social differences. Instructor: Blacksher
B H 588, Global Perspectives in Bioethics [sln#10949] 3 cr, T360+A HSB, W 3:30-4:50 [2 OPEN SEATS]
Examines problems in bioethics from diverse global standpoints, including East Asian, Sub-Saharran African and Western. Our emphasis is on developing a deeper understanding of the cultural assumptions that lie just beneath the surface of bioethics debates. Readings from contemporary philosophy, film and literature. Instructor: Jecker
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