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MED HIST 515

PUBLIC HEALTH ETHICS

3 credits.

Focuses on ethical issues implicated in a population-level approach to disease prevention and health promotion. Explores prominent theoretical approaches to public health ethics and engages with several ethical tensions. Example issues include: the use of coercive or intrusive public health; the justification of patemalistic measures in societies; the extent to which societies should hold individuals responsible for their health conditions; the need to decide who receives life-saving treatment or vaccination; and climate changes and intergenerational justice; ethical issues in international pharmaceutical research.

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Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2022 Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the conversation about public health ethics as an enterprise incorporating moral philosophy, bioethics, and evidence-based social science. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Identify and clarify diverse moral norms and principles that underlie diverse convictions about public health ethics. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Subject these norms and principles to dispassionate critical reasoning aimed at evaluating the force of underlying reasons for and against them. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Write clear and concise essays subjecting issues of public health ethics to dispassionate ethical analysis. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Write a clear and concise 15-page essay arguing for a novel thesis concerning public health ethics. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the conversation about public health ethics as an enterprise incorporating moral philosophy, bioethics, and evidence-based social science. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Identify and clarify diverse moral norms and principles that underlie diverse convictions about public health ethics. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Subject these norms and principles to dispassionate critical reasoning aimed at evaluating the force of underlying reasons for and against them. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Write clear and concise essays subjecting issues of public health ethics to dispassionate ethical analysis. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Write a clear and concise 15-page essay arguing for a novel thesis concerning public health ethics. Audience: Graduate

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