Bioethics Course Offerings

CORE COURSES

Advanced Introduction to Bioethics
G84.1005  Ruddick and others. 4 points.
This course explores a range of concepts and principles for framing and addressing moral questions in both medical and environmental practices. Combining these two areas broadens bioethics to include and connect individual, public, and global health issues. Topics include respect for life and nature; comprehensive concepts of health, disease, and cure; autonomy and rights to life and health care; ethical principles of medical care, research, and environmental “stewardship”; population and environmental constraints on creating and extending human lives.

Advanced Introduction to Environmental Ethics
G84.1006  Jamieson, Sachs, and others. 4 points.
This course situates theoretical developments in practical ethics broadly and in environmental ethics specifically. The course builds on the theoretical materials by examining a series of cases including ethics and agriculture, corporate responsibility and environmental injustice, and the environmental health consequences of war.

Independent Study
G84.3000  Bognar, Jamieson, Ruddick, Sachs. 2-6 points.
Students work on a practicum, or affiliation with a medical or environmental organization, committee, or project, and a supervised master’s essay on the moral issues these groups address and ignore (or, alternatively, an extension of a course term essay).

ELECTIVE COURSES (PARTIAL LISTING)

Topics in Bioethics
G84.1008  Bognar, Jamieson, Ruddick, Sachs, and others. 4 points.
Examines areas of mutual concern to medical and environmental ethics. In particular, this includes global public health; ethics, justice, and public health; and justice and resource allocation.

Clinical Ethics
G84.2222  Liao, Ruddick, and School of Medicine faculty. 4 points.
Theoretical and practical medical ethics, combined with observation in a clinical setting.

Philosophical Problems of Medicine
G84.1177  Liao, Ruddick. 4 points.
General and distinctive features of medical research and practice and of philosophical assumptions that underlie current moral, political, and methodological issues in medicine.

Life and Death
G84.1175  Identical to G83.1175. 4 points.

Advanced Introduction to Ethics
G83.1104  4 points.

Colloquium on Health, Medicine, Law, and Society
L13.3500  3 points.

Community Health and Medical Care
P11.1830  4 points.

Comparative Health Care Systems
P11.2852  4 points.

Cultures of Biomedicine
G14.3214  4 points.

Environment and Urban Dynamics
P11.2615  4 points.

Environmental Health
G48.1004  4 points.

Environmental Politics
E50.2021  3 points.

Environmental Values, Policies, and the Law
L01.3563  2 points.

Ethics: Selected Topics
G83.2285  4 points.

Global Health Governance and Management
P11.2244  4 points.

Health Law
L13.3525  3 points.

History and Principles of Public Health
E81.2522  3 points.

Impacts of Technology: Information: Technology and Privacy
E38.1034  3 points.

International Population and Family Health
E81.2383  3 points.

Sociology of Medicine
G94.2401  4 points.

Terrorism: Biological, Chemical, and Psychological Warfare
G48.1007  4 points.

Weather, Air Pollution, and Health
G48.1010  4 points.