Social Organizational Bioethics

Catalog description

Pre-requisites: BIET 6005. The course introduces the student to decisions at the level of the macro bioethics in the field of the social, organizational and public health ethics. Organizational ethics is identified as a point of departure to discuss own matters of the commercial and professional ethics, and social bioethics. The most important ethical challenges that face the field of the public health will be analyzed critically from a social bioethics perspective: the civil ethics in the western societies, the health system in Puerto Rico, the ecology and environment, and the populations in conditions of vulnerability, among others. The course learning strategies are based to promote the active learning and the critical analysis, such as, problem -based learning and the strategies of exploration, conceptualization, and application. At the end of the course is expected that the student develop a proposal to establish an organizational ethics program in a public health setting. BIET 6035 - Teaching Methods in Bioethics. One (1) credit. Pre-requisites: BIET 6005. The course is designed for graduate students of Health Professions.