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BTHX 5000 Topics in Bioethics
Section I Social Context of Health and Illness - 3 cr
Joan Liaschenko, RN, PhD
This course examines the social context in which contemporary meanings of health and illness are understood by providers and
patients. Course readings will be drawn from history, social science, literature, and first person accounts. Ethical implications
of these meanings will be included.
BTHX 5000/GL0S 5900 Topics in Bioethics
Section II Internationalizing Bioethics: The Japanese Case - 1 cr
William R. LaFleur, MA, PhD, Visiting Professor
American bioethicists have begun to recognize that internationalizing their discipline may be more difficult than was once assumed. Japan has been especially resistant to the way issues have been defined and solutions have been sought here. Attention in this course will be given to range of issues where difference surfaces - informed consent, patient autonomy, organ transplantation, abortion, reproductive technologies, treatment of dementia, and issues related to dying. More importantly, these will provide a standpoint for looking back at the cultural, philosophical, and religious assumptions in American approaches. The aim will be to put more nuance into how this discipline might be internationalized.
There will be six additional hours assigned to this course: Additional time with another professor prior to Dr LaFleur's t hree weeks and follow up discussions with Dr LaFleur online. A syllabus will be released in early August.
BTHX 5100 Introduction to Clinical Ethics 3 cr
Mary Faith Marshall, PhD; Dianne Bartels, RN, MA, PhD
This course addresses the ethical issues inherent in the provider/patient encounter. It is designed to foster interdisciplinary
study and dialogue about these important moral issues. It will be relevant to a broad population of students.
BTHX 5210 Ethics of Human Subjects Research 3 cr
Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH; Debra DeBruin, PhD, DGS
This course will address fundamental issues in the ethics of human subjects research, to include a basic understanding o
f the Federal oversight system for human subjects research and placing the ethical issues in human subjects research into the
broader context of the responsible conduct of research.
BTHX 5325 Biomedical Ethics 3 cr (Cross Listed with PHIL 5325)
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
A survey of major topics and issues in biomedical ethics including patients' rights and duties, informed consent,
confidentiality, ethical issues in medical research, the initiation and termination of medical treatment, euthanasia, abortion,
and the allocation of medical resources.
Law 6875 Law, Health, and Life Sciences Seminar
Susan Wolf
BTHX 5100 Introduction to Clinical Ethics 3 cr
Mary Faith Marshall, PhD; Dianne Bartels, RN, MA, PhD
This course addresses the ethical issues inherent in the provider/patient encounter. It is designed to foster interdisciplinary
study and dialogue about these important moral issues. It will be relevant to a broad population of students.
BTHX 5900 Independent Study in Bioethics 1-4 cr
Students propose area for study with faculty guidance, write proposal, which includes outcome objectives, and work plan. Faculty
member directs student's work and evaluates project.
BTHX 8000 Advanced Topics in Bioethics 1-4 cr
Advanced study of bioethics topics of contemporary interest
Medical Consumerism 3 cr
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD
The purpose of this course to explore the roots and implications of what we will call "medical consumerism." How is the
consumerist model of medicine shaping our concepts of disease and disability? What larger historical developments have led to our
current situation? How is the movement towards medical consumerism changing the profession of medicine itself? And how are the
tools of medical enhancement shaping the way we think about our identities and the way we live our lives? This seminar will draw
on an interdisciplinary set of texts from philosophy, history, literature, law, film and the social sciences as a way of
exploring these larger questions.
Gender and the Politics of Health 3 cr
Joan Liaschenko, RN, PhD; Debra DeBruin, PhD, DGS
This course explores the moral and political importance of gender in topics related to health. The course is organized
broadly around life span issues, for example, childbirth, menopause, aging, and death. These issues are situated within their
institutional and broader social contexts. This course is appropriate for a wide audience including students from the health
professions, philosophy, social science, and law.
BTHX 8900 Advanced Independent Study in Bioethics 1-4 cr
Students propose area for study with faculty guidance, write proposal, which includes outcome objectives, and work plan. Faculty
member directs student's work and evaluates project.
GCD 8914 Ethical and Legal Issues in Genetic Counseling
Bonnie LeRoy, Dianne Bartels, RN, MA, PhD
Med 7598 Biomedical Ethics
John Song, MD, MPH, MAT
Nurs 8140 Moral and Ethical Positions in Nursing
Joan Liaschenko, RN, PhD
PubH 6741Ethics in Public Health: Professional Practice and Policy
Debra DeBruin, PhD, DGS
PubH 6742 Ethics in Public Health: Research and Policy
Debra DeBruin, PhD, DGS
Law 6853 Law, Biomedicine & Bioethics Seminar
Susan Wolf, JD