Health Care Ethics
Professor Barnbaum, Coordinator
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 Hours | ||||
| BSCI | 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 cluster |
9 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.