Philosophy of Medicine

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This is a seminar-style course jointly taught by Profs. Aas and Sulmasy that will serve as an introductory overview of this field. We will set aside questions of medical ethics to explore more basic philosophical questions regarding the concepts of health, disease, disability, and death. We will also explore questions about medicine—its goals, methods of reasoning, and epistemology. In addition, we will investigate the meaning and importance of the patient-physician relationship and the idea of medicine as a profession. Readings will be drawn from the contemporary scholarly literature.