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Summer 2020 | PHIL 3305 Section 101: Medical Ethics (87238)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
Online Course
- Times and Locations:
Second Half of Term
Mon,
Tue,
Wed,
Thu,
Fri 01:30PM - 04:00PM
Off Campus
Virtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
Open (12 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Moral problems confronting physicians, patients, and others concerned with medical treatment, research, and public health policy. Topics include abortion, living wills, euthanasia, genetic engineering, informed consent, proxy decision-making, and allocation of medical resources.
- Class Description:
- This is an introductory course in medical ethics. We will use critical philosophical methodology to examine contemporary problems related to current medical practice, research, and healthcare systems. The course begins with foundational problems within clinical and research practice, including: Is paternalism on the part of medical experts justified? To what degree should patients control their care? Should medical professionals always tell the truth? We will critically examine how these questions have been answered by patients, physicians, courts, and philosophers. The course will also examine contemporary philosophical debates on abortion, end-of-life decision-making, and the use of reproductive technologies, such as cloning. We will question what justice means in three different senses: 1) What is a just distribution of scarce resources, such as transplantable organs? 2) What is a just distribution of healthcare resources across a system? And 3) how should we conceptualize healthcare as a global health concern? In the final portion of the course, we will examine at individual roles and responsibilities within medicine, such as should conscientious objection be allowed? We will consider the cases of pharmacists and prescription contraception, as well as cases from medical education and research ethics. This course will familiarize students with philosophical methodology, especially written critical analysis, and cover a wide range of questions in the field of medical ethics. In this course, the complexities of reality will confront philosophical inquiry into what is good, right, and just.
- Grading:
- 20% Reading Responses, 50% Short Written Assignments, 10% In-class work, 20% Final Exam
- Exam Format:
- Multiple choice, true/false, and short answer questions
- Class Format:
- Lecture with discussion
- Workload:
- 30+ pages of reading per week, approximately 1.25 pages of written work per week, final examination
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/87238/1205
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 September 2015
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