Section Info: PHIL-181-01

Course Title: Medical Ethics

Start Date: 10/21/2020 End Date: 12/14/2020

Term: Fall Semester 2020

Description: Contemporary medicine gives rise to a variety of moral and philosophical questions. What moral duties do we have to those at the beginning of life? How should we approach to euthanasia? Should we be worried about the growth of technology in medicine? Should public health be prioritized over an individual's autonomy regarding their own body? How should limited health care resources be distributed? The goals of this course are to improve our understanding of the best arguments on different sides of these questions. The course will begin with a theory section, where we survey influential ethical theories that will be helpful towards finding reasonable answers to questions within medical ethics.

Distribution(s): I - Humanities

Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate

Credits:4.00

Faculty	Phone	Email address
James Harold	413-538-2366	jharold@mtholyoke.edu

Meeting Dates	Method	Meeting days	Meeting times	Building name	Room	Frequency
10/21/2020 - 12/14/2020	Flex. Immersive Lecture	Monday	12:45PM - 02:00PM	TBA	TBA	Weekly
10/21/2020 - 12/14/2020	Flex. Immersive Lecture	Tuesday and Thursday	12:45PM - 01:45PM			Weekly
10/21/2020 - 12/14/2020	Flex. Immersive Lecture	Wednesday and Friday	12:45PM - 02:30PM			Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses
None

Comments

Additional Comments

Course Tags
MOD0002	MOD-2: Courses meeting in Module 2	This course meets in Module 2.

Cross-listed Sections

None

Course Availability
Section status: Closed	Capacity: 48	Enrollment: 48	Available: 0	Waitlist: 0

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List	Required	Publisher Full Price
Title: The Ethics of Pandemics Author: Schwartz, Meredith Celene Copyright: 2020 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781554815449 Publisher: Broadview Press	Optional	19.95

Additional Book Comments

This is the complete book list for this class.