Bioethics in Modern Medicine ((4 Credits))

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Bioethics is an interdisciplinary field of study and a set of social and cultural practices. It examines the moral questions raised by developments in biomedicine, biotechnologies and the life sciences. Ethical issues penetrate nearly every area of the biological, health care, clinical, social and behavioral sciences and medical humanities. This public health course uses empirical and theoretically-informed case-based approaches to provide an overview of the moral, philosophical, and cultural underpinnings of ethical issues in U.S. medical care and public health research practice.