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3.00 Credits
Psychosocial aspects of health care delivery and ethical decision-making are explored for each of the seven stages of life, including infancy, early childhood, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle age and older adulthood. Life-course development, aging, health care and medical ethics are viewed within the context of a changing society, as each generation develops its values, expectations for health care, and perspectives on medical ethics. Focus is given to generational relations in the health-care system and to the impact of stage of life on medical treatment and ethical decision making.
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3.00 Credits
In this course we will read first-person narratives of illness and disability to explore the experiences of those who fall outside the boundaries of health and physical ability and what is often perceived as physical and/ or mental “normalcy.” We will discuss first-hand accounts of authorswho, rather than remaining silent as the object of unthinking stares or insensitive medical care, have spoken out as subjects. We will consider the difficulties those with serious illness and disability encounter within their families, social groups and health care settings and examine how these difficulties are at odds with health care practitioners’ objectives and perspectives. We will examine what it means to look, move and think differently in society and how that “difference” affects sympathy and attraction, theforces that knit individuals into a social fabric.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the origins and use of ethical theories in the clinical, professional, organizational and political-economic fields of action in health care. Specific issues presented in the context of case studies illuminate the several fields. These issues include assisted suicide, professional codes of ethics, the ethics of “cost-cutting” andjustice with respect to care.
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3.00 Credits
Psychological and cultural determinants of mental disorders are examined with special emphasis on authors who portray mental disorders as social roles, such as Goffman, Szasz, Scheff, and Laing. Phenomenological perspective will be used to study personal accounts of mental illness from a variety of societies: East African, Mexican, Hutterite and Chinese. Finally, a transculturally valid model of psychosis is offered, combining social and biogenetic theories of mental disorders.
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3.00 Credits
The fundamental tenets of health care delivery are analyzed and the concepts of “health,” “illness,” “patient,” “cure” and “efficienexplored. Western medical practices are compared to practices in other cultures; implicit premises and deficiencies in western medicine are highlighted. Topics include analysis of status and roles in hospitals; socialization into the culture of medicine; magical curing; economic barriers to better health care; problems introducing western medicine into alien cultures; and the patient’s role.
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3.00 Credits
The relationships between artistic creators and medicine will be explored through the study of novels, film, short stories, and essays about medical situations, characters and themes. Thematic areas to be examined include the responsibility of medical research; the hospital as environment; relationships between health care workers and patients; illness as metaphor and as reality; and the experience of disease. Discussion on what writers/directors are communicating and how they do so will emphasize characterization, setting, tone, and point of view.
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3.00 Credits
The course will examine American attitudes and responses toward the end of life through the perspective of American fiction, non-fiction, poetry and film. We will explore how Americans deal with progressive, incurable disease, terminal illness, death and bereavement. Students will analyze readings as well as keep a journal documenting their responses toward the literature and class discussion.
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3.00 Credits
This course involves a careful examination of ethical issues in global and international health. The course focuses critical attention on ethical issues about trade in human organs, cultural practices that harm health, human migration, infectious diseases (like HIV and SARS), research conducted in low-income countries, drug pricing, health inequalities between countries, malnutrition, globalization, international civil society and service abroad. To deal with these issues, the readings and lectures will develop ideas about respect, autonomy, community, need, responsibility, ethical relativism, human rights and global justice.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine attitudes (cultural, professional, medical, personal) towards those who have HIV/AIDS. The literature presented will reflect a combination of fictional and real characters through whose lives the progression of the disease will be followed from its initial incarnation as a mysterious, frightening curse to its current status as a chronic illness that can be managed with proper treatment and medication. Ethical dilemmas will be explored as AIDS is brought to the forefront of medicine, law and politics and today’s responses will be analyzed in comparison with those in the first days of the epidemic.
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3.00 Credits
This course will bring together students, faculty and guests from multiple disciplines to explore interdisciplinary approaches to serving the needs of older adults. Each class will be devoted to a discrete topic ranging from end-of-life care, to driving cessation, to surrogate decision making, to elder abuse. Students will be offered readings from multiple disciplines relating to the topic of the week and one or two case studies to consider in advance of class. Class time will be devoted in large part to an interactive discussion of the case study or studies of the week. The aim of the course is for students to learn how other disciplines might approach problems they encounter in their work with seniors, what other resources are available to assit them in their work with seniors, and how to work in a truly interdisciplinary manner with professionals from multiple disciplines.
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