Healthcare Ethics: Theories, Values, & Practice

Three credits · Undergraduate

This course introduces students to ethical reasoning about problems in healthcare. It does so by exploring four fundamental philosophical theories (Virtue Ethics; Contractarianism & Rights; Duty-Based Ethics; and Consequentialism), presenting the corresponding values in healthcare, and showing how these principles and values can be applied to specific cases. Credit will be granted for only one of PHIL 135 and PHIL 335. Three credits.