Clinical Medical Ethics: What Would a Good Physician Do?

Catalog description

What is medicine for? What standards and norms reasonably guide physicians' actions? This course will consider rival answers to these questions, and then follow clinical ethical cases to grapple with questions about: the clinician-patient relationship, the limits of medicine, the meaning of autonomy, the place of conscience and judgment in the physician's work, the difference between an intended effect and a side effect, proportionality, sexuality and reproduction, the beginning of life, disability, and end-of-life care. Open to MS3 and MS4 students. The class may be taken individually or as part of longitudinal MS3 medical humanities sequence. Third year students must obtain approval of their research mentor in order to take the course. Email approvals should be sent to [email protected] and the course director. Meeting Location: Conference Room, Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine, Room 108 Seeley G Mudd Building (Medical Center Library). To be held Monday evenings, 5:15pm, -7:15pm. Credit: 1. Enrollment Max.: 16; Enrollment Minimum: 8. Joshua Briscoe, MD ([email protected]); Farr A. Curlin ([email protected]), MD; and Marjorie Miller ([email protected])