This course explores the relationships among health, medicine, and society as well as the representations of illness, suffering, disability, and death through the lens of literature, the arts and philosophy, paying particular attention to power relationships and categories of difference.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

This course provides learners with an opportunity to explore the foundations of health care ethics. The material will cover several different ethical frameworks, with an eye to application to practical problems of health care and population health.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

This interdisciplinary course will explore the interconnections and intersections between medicine and media, investigating a significant collaborative enterprise that characterizes American culture.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

This course introduces students to the intellectual and clinical discipline of narrative work in healthcare. Students will explore the theoretical foundations of narrative in healthcare and participate in structured workshops to improve close reading of texts and writing skills. Requisite: 008754

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

This interdisciplinary course will equip students with the tools needed to understand health stigma, to construct an explanation as to why it is so common and to explain what, if anything, should be done to address such stigma. Requisite: 008754

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

This independent study will permit students to pursue specialized topics and/or previously studied topics in health humanities and health ethics in greater depth and with more flexible scheduling. Requisite: 008754

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 3.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

German health professionals – especially physicians, but also nurses, dentists, pharmacists, midwives and public health practitioners – developed and led some of the most heinous activities of the Third Reich. Why? And what are the legacies of this history for medicine and society today?

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

This course provides learners with an introduction to public health ethics. The material explores differences between public health ethics & health care ethics, important frameworks used in public health ethical analysis, and significant practice in analyzing public health ethics cases.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

This course explores the lived experiences of pain, its paradoxes, and the extent to which it is a key feature of the human condition. Analyses will be drawn from history, religious studies, philosophy, literature, poetry, public health, medicine, and law.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring.

he purpose of this course is to introduce students to the theory, methods, history, and application of clinical ethics. Course sessions will include instructor- and student-led didactics. Students will be expected to discuss issues and cases in clinical ethics and critically analyze ethical topics and cases in oral and written formats.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.