Conceptual and Practical Ethical Problems in Global Health Delivery

Harvard HMS

The goal of this course is for the student to gain in her own ability to ask and attempt to answer foundational questions about the basis and content of our felt obligations toward one another, their possible limits, and to gain confidence in critiquing popular (conventional) forms of discourse/practice in the evolving arena of global health ethics. We will do so through the interrogation of practical issues such as considerations for conducting ethically-sound global health research and the…