Philosophy of Medicine.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours (delivered online, face-to-face or hybrid). 3 credits. Prerequisite: PHIL 201 or PHIL 213 . The aims of medicine and public health are practical. Yet both of these sciences rest on contentious philosophical assumptions about the nature of causation, causal inference, study design and the relative authority of different types of evidence. This class investigates contemporary debates about these assumptions, with an eye towards understanding how medical research and practice is affected by their resolution.