PHIL 321 Medical Ethics

General

• Apply, at an advanced collegiate level, the resulting understandings to an analysis of the moral dilemmas inevitably facing all members of the medical community, from provider to patient to citizen concerned to contribute to the shaping of health care policies.
• Assess case studies, comparing various formal codes of ethics with accounts developed in the course, focusing on issues such as euthanasia, patient consent, patient privacy, etc.
• Compare and contrast major moral theories, theories of justice, and applied accounts specific to medical ethics.
• Focus most acutely on the centrality of justification for claims made in these accounts.
• Use the work of the course to reflect on personal beliefs and attitudes about these central issues, and to construct ways, as a citizen involved with the medical community, to act morally on those beliefs.