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healthcare ethics
Health Care Ethics
Professor Barnbaum, Coordinator
IMAGE: Deborah
The Health-care Ethics program is a concentration of courses offered by disciplines within the University concerned with health-care practices and the education of health-care practitioners. The minor is designed to heighten a student's awareness of what constitutes ethical concerns, problems, and activity from the perspectives of various kinds of health-care practitioners, clients, and institutions. Various views of what constitutes "the ethical" are treated in the ethics courses so that the student is alerted both to the conceptual dimension of so-called ethical activity and the existence of differing and conflicting modes of ethical reasoning, with the "Health-Care Ethics" course attempting to sketch an appropriate responsive action in the light of these "realities."
Students wishing to enter this program need to be certain that required prerequisites of many of the courses within the program are met.
Required Courses: 15 HoursBSCI 30050 Human Genetics 3
HED 21050 Health Behavior 3
SOC 42563 Sociology of Health and Health Care 3
PHIL 40005 Health-Care Ethics 3
PHIL 21001 Intro to Ethics 3
plus 9 additional hours, where no more than 6 hours can be taken in any one cluster9 hours
Cluster I:
BSCI 20021 Basic Microbiology 3
BSCI 40020 Biology of Aging 3
Cluster II:
SOC 42010 Death & Dying 3
Cluster III:
HED 14020 Intro to Med. Technology 2
HED 22564 Intro to Disease 3
HED 42041 Health Counseling 3
Cluster IV:
PHIL 21003 Ethics in Contemporary Contexts* 3
PHIL 41028 Ethical Pluralisms 3
Cluster V:
HONR 30297 Junior Colloquium** 3
ILS 49993 Human Values in Medicine*** 1 to 5
Total 24 Hours
*PHIL 21003, "Ethics in Contemporary Contexts" (3), is recommended, but not required for all Health-Care Ethics students.
**Pertinent to Health-care issues. Restricted to honors students or permission of instructor.
***With prior approval of coordinator of the minor in Health-care Ethics.
