History of Medical Ethics and Bioethics

3 units · Graduate

The main goal of this course is to explore the historical roots of the field of bioethics. The course will be divided into a few main parts: the first is a broad survey of key figures and movements in medical history from antiquity to modernity, including the Hippocratics, Galenic medicine, the birth of dissection, Christian hospitality, Medieval medicine, modern surgery, the age of antibiotics,etc