Philosophy 260ME - Medical Ethics

Fall
2018
01
4.00
James Harold
TTH 11:30AM-12:45PM
Mount Holyoke College
104351
Art 220
jharold@mtholyoke.edu
Contemporary medicine gives rise to a variety of;moral and philosophical questions. Some of the;questions we will discuss include: Is the concept;of disease objective? What moral duties do we;have to those at the beginning and the end of;life? How should limited health care resources be;distributed? What are the responsibilities of;medical researchers towards their subjects? Do we;have reason to be worried about the growth of;technology in medicine? Are the basic;institutions of medicine just? The goals of this;course are to improve our understanding of the;arguments on different sides of these questions,;and to acquire some tools to evaluate those;arguments.
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