PHIL 220 Medical Ethics

Medical ethics is the study of morality in the context of health and pathology. It concerns metaphysical issues about the nature of physical and mental disorders, and moral issues about treatments and policies. Topics include the creation of life, euthanasia, the Hippocratic Oath, treatment of the diseased or disabled, and the distribution of limited healthcare resources. The course topics are at the heart of moral, metaphysical, and economic issues in applied ethics: for example, creation-of-life and end-of-life issues. This course explores these issues and their consequences for the theoretical and applied fields of healthcare.

Credits

3

Offered

Offered on occasion