BIOE 5304 - Global Health Ethics: A Literary Examination

Institution:

Yeshiva University

Subject:

Bioethics

Description:

This course examines the ways writers of several professions have used the narrative form to explore the ethics of care in resource-constrained communities abroad and at home. We will begin by developing a set of ethical questions associated with practicing medicine in what has been called the developing world. How, for instance, have physicians used scenes of practice in Africa, the Caribbean, or Latin America to advance ideas of mercy, charity and beneficence? How differently have they imagined such practice when examining issues of autonomy, paternalism, and communication in the US? To what extent, then, are ethical struggles abroad reflective of those at home? And how does literary analysis reveal the dynamics of power implicit in narrating care for underserved communities? We will address these questions via attention to various narrative forms, namely prose fiction, the narrative essay, reportage, testimony, memoir and ethnography. Assessment will be based on weekly critical discussion and two medium-length essays involving narrative and analytic writing. Prerequisites: permission of the instructor.

Credits:

2.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.yu.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 960-5400

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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