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1.00 Credits
This seminar examines ethical controversies surrounding the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the early twenty-first century. It covers both domestic and international issues. The seminar is divided into several parts. Part I, HIV Testing, covers the controversies surrounding HIV testing and the evolution of HIV testing models from Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) to the current recommendations for opt-out provider initiated testing. Part II, HIV Treatment, provides an introduction to human rights discourse as it relates to access to HIV treatment. The first session of Part II will cover general topics of human rights and HIV treatment. The second session will focus on global inequalities in HIV treatment. Part III, HIV research, will focus on ethical considerations surrounding HIV research in developing nations. The second session will focus on unique ethical issues with HIV prevention research. Class sessions are scheduled for two hours. All courses will be taught in seminar fashion. The majority of the class will be dedicated to analysis and discussion of the readings and case studies pertinent to the topic being covered. Prerequisites: Certificate program or instructor permission.
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2.00 Credits
This course looks at sexual orientation and gender through a broad array of lenses, including legal and medical texts and fiction. We will address the ways that understanding of these issues has evolved over time and across cultures. The class will consider the role and changing nature of medical views of these issues as well as constitutional and statutory matters. Prerequisites: Certificate program or instructor permission.
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2.00 Credits
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.
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2.00 Credits
This course will begin with a history of medical research, including research into biological warfare by the US, Germany and Japan during the Second World War. We will track the involvement of medicine in ethically questionable research activities and then focus on the development of the federal regulations governing research with human subjects. The course will examine such topics as informed consent, the risk-benefit ratio and confidentiality. We will address research with vulnerable subjects, including children, prisoners and adults without decision-making capacity. We will examine the interaction between race, class and human subjects research. We will review topics of current ethical and regulatory interest, reviewing recent and proposed changes in federal regulations. Some weekly seminars will feature presentations from visiting scholars and officials who are nationally recognized leaders in the field of human subjects research. Prerequisites: permission of the instructor.
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2.00 Credits
The pharmaceutical industry is under intense scrutiny by medical journals, regulators, and the lay public. Yet drug companies have translated scientific discoveries into products that have improved and extended the lives of millions of people. This course will familiarize students with the drug development process, and examine the factors that have contributed to the commercial successes and failures of drug companies. With this information as a backdrop, the course will then focus on the multiple ethical issues that arise in commercial drug development, including the promotion of unapproved uses of drugs, ghostwriting, the medicalization of conditions to expand markets, and conflicts of interest. Prerequisites: permission of the instructor.
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2.00 Credits
This course explores how religious beliefs and practices influence the delivery of health care, from the perspectives of both the patient and physician. We review various faith traditions, specifically looking at how issues such as end-of-life care, refusal of medical treatment, abortion, assisted reproduction and other medical decisions are shaped by different religious traditions. The course explores how religious doctrine impacts medical decision-making at the patient level, as well as how legal/ethical issues sometimes encroach on patient autonomy (especially in the case of minors). It also investigates the ethical obligations of religious hospitals and the larger health care system in addressing issues of faith for patients and/or providers. Finally, the course examines how physicians balance their professional obligations and religious beliefs, by investigating, among other examples, whether it is appropriate for doctors to join with patients and/or their families in prayer. Prerequisites: permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
This course is a fundamental requirment in fulfilment of the capstone/thesis project. It consists of the post-proposal research, practice, writing and revision for the project, under the guidance of an advisor in the relevant field, selected from the faculty of Cardozo, Einstein and Yeshiva. A student may register for all 4 credits in a given semester, or for 2 credits over two semesters.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
This course provides an opportunity for fully matriculated MBE students to design and carry out a semester-long research project, under the supervision of a faculty advisor, with the intent to present work at a regional, national, or international meeting and/or for publication. Students may apply for 1-2 academic credits, nothing that 1 credit typically requires 15 contact hours with the advisor, with each contact hour requiring an additional 2 hours of outside work. Approval for the credit will be granted on an individual basis, after review by the Center and the University Registrar, upon which the student will be registered for a given term, with the faculty advisor as instructor of record.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
No course description available.
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4.00 Credits
For non-majors. Presents a levels approach to the study of biology. First semester: physiochemical principles underlying living systems, cell structure and functions, cellular energetics, cell division, laws of genetics; laboratory work: emphasis on the recognition and classification of life forms. Second semester: thorough study of human anatomy and physiology; laboratory work: mammalian histology and dissection. Lecture: 3 hours; lab: 2 hours. Laboratory fee.
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