Justice and Health Care (3 credits)
Course Number: BEHP402
Instructor:
Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will provide an overview of
justice and health care with a special emphasis upon the developing
world. We will read from a variety of sources to better understand what
justice means generally and what justice means with regard to health
care. Readings will come from the following books: Pathologies of
Power by Paul Farmer, The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs,
Medicine and Social Justice by Rhodes, Battin and Silvers,
Ethical Dimensions of Health Policy by Danis, Clancy and Churchill.
Ethics Across the Care
Continuum
(3 credits)
Course Number: BEHP403
Instructor:
Mark
Kuczewski, PhD
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will prepare students to identify biomedical ethical issues
in a setting such as long-term care, rehabilitation care, psychiatric
care, dentistry, and alternative medicine and to develop moral
frameworks for addressing these issues. These objectives will be
met by considering the current literature on ethical issues in these
settings, analyzing cases and issues from these health-care delivery
sites, and exploring theoretical questions concerning how the principles
and frameworks of biomedical ethics can be adapted to apply in these
settings.
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to view course sample lecture, "Introduction
to Rehabilitation Ethics."
Biomedical Ethics and the Law (3 credits)
Course Number: BEHP404
Instructor:
Erin Egan, MD, JD
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course serves as an introduction to biomedical ethics and
the law. Traditionally, the law has had a significant influence upon the
development of bioethics; more recently bioethics has been shaping legal
decisions and legislation. After a brief historical introduction to
bioethics and the US legal system, we will survey a number of seminal
legal cases. These cases touch upon areas such as reproduction, end of
life care, the doctor-patient relationship, standards of care, new
technologies and death and transplantation. We will also regularly refer
to various codes of medical ethics. Being a seminar, this course
will be discussion-based. At times, lectures, guest speakers and video
vignettes will be used throughout the duration of the course.
Supplementary reading will be required in addition to the main text we
will use. Students will also be expected to present cases during the
course and briefly present their papers at the end of the course.
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here
(ppt audio file)
to view course sample lecture, "End-of Life Decisions."
Research and Ethics (3 credits)
Course Number: BEHP405
Instructor:
Mark
Kuczewski, PhD
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This
interactive seminar will explore ethical issues pertaining to scientific research,
especially biomedical research. Issues
regarding scientific integrity, all aspects of human subjects research, and research
involving animals will be analyzed. The
course is designed to help participants become comfortable with the language and
literature of research ethics. It is especially helpful to clinical investigators and
members of Institutional Review Boards (IRB) as the application of federal regulations to
particular cases will be probed in depth.
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to view course sample lecture,
"Human Subjects: Investigator-Researcher Relationship."
Principles of Health Care Ethics
(3 credits)
Course Number: BEHP406
Instructor:
Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD
& John Hardt, PhD
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will serve as an introduction to different ways of thinking through and
identifying ethical problems in health care. We will begin with some standard approaches
to health care ethics, such as the four principles approach (using the principles of
autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence); then we will treat traditional moral
theories (such as deontological, consequentialist, and virtue ethics); and finally, we
will end with some critiques of traditional approaches (feminist and narrative
ethics). As the course proceeds, students will consider
the way in which bioethics, as an ethical enterprise, is socially embedded within a
culture that maintains particular norms and traditions. By examining the ways in which
bioethics is socially embedded, students will be well prepared to treat cross-cultural
issues. We will explore the questions: What does it mean to do bioethics within a
multicultural, multi-ethnic society? How can we ensure that it is done in a way that is
culturally sensitive, without abandoning ourselves to the kind of ethical relativism that
makes impossible ethical critiques of medical practice? For each week's discussion, students will be
assigned a case study or exercise that fits with the topic under consideration. In doing
these case studies, they will be able to apply the moral theories/principles to real
situations, thus gaining some facility in working with these moral tools. Our goal is to
get students to practice the skills and apply the knowledge that is the topic of the week.
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here for course introduction video on YouTube
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to view course sample lecture,
"Kant and Respect for Autonomy."
Social Science and
Bioethics (3 credits)
Course
Number: BEHP407
Instructor:
Lena Hatchett, PhD
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will review the theoretical work on social
science (anthropology, sociology) and moral reasoning as it pertains to
the discipline of bioethics, its philosophical roots, and the body of
social science work in bioethics. This class will critically
examine a number of current bioethical issues in the United States and
internationally. The course considers how both bioethical
dilemmas, and the values, principles, rights, etc. that serve as their
foundation, are shaped by patients' and health professionals' cultural
values and beliefs about concepts of self/personhood, body, life, and
death. This course will also explore how broader, socio-cultural
factors relating to power, economics, gender, science, and the media
influence bioethical dilemmas and their resolution. Students will
learn how to use the technique of self-reflexivity to understand
cultural values.
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Ethics, Genetics & Health Policy (3 credits)
Course Number: BEHP408
Instructor: John Hardt, PhD
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will provide an introduction to genetic ethics and a survey
of topics that constitute the professional and popular literature in the
field. Topics to be considered include, but are not limited to, gene
patenting, human cloning, and race and genetics. Classes will be topic
driven and will draw upon a variety of sources including a recent
genetic ethics text and an anthology of articles on various topics
within the field. The ethical questions that genetic technological
advance poses to our understanding of human identity and social justice
will serve as the organizing themes of the course.
Religion & Bioethics (3 credits)
Course Number:
BEHP409
Instructor: Fr.
Kevin O'Rourke, OP, JCD, STM &
John Hardt, PhD
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will consider the assumptions concerning the human person
which form the basis for Catholic and Secular Bioethics. It will also
examine the role of medicine and ethics in other faith traditions
(Protestantism, Judaism, Islam). It will consider some of the more
important ethical issues which arise from these concepts, and consider
the role of theology and law in seeking solutions to clinical cases. The
role of the physician, patient, and family will be the focal point in
the medical-ethical scenario.
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part 1 |
part 2 (video files) to view course sample lecture,
"Religion and Bioethics."
Public Health Ethics (3
credits)
Course Number: BEHP411
Instructor:
Lena Hatchett, PhD
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will
introduce the student to public health through a focus on ethical issues
emergent in public health practice and research. The course covers a
broad array of topics in ethics through an examination of case studies
drawn from all subfields of public health. The relationship between
ethics, policy and culture is highlighted in an effort to place ethical
issues within a broader, ecological approach. Emphasis is placed on
practical and clinical approach to public health ethics in an effort to
assist public health practitioners in their role as public health
advocates. A case-based approach will assist in fostering knowledge and
skills in public health ethical analysis. Since evidence based medicine
and practice are increasingly pervading public health and health policy,
through the readings, the course will pay critical attention to the
value and limits of evidence-based medicine and practice.
Organizational Ethics: Business, Professionalism, and Justice (3
credits)
Course Number:
BEHP412
Instructor:
Mark Kuczewski, PhD
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course examines ethical issues in
health care from the vantage point of decision makers who shape the
system, e.g., physicians within a group practice, administrators
within a health system, or advocates within a community. In
particular, issues of balancing fidelity to the mission of a
health-care organization with limitations emanating from its
operating or profit margin will be considered in detail. The social
and economic context of health care in the United States will be
overviewed as the background for considering the responsibilities
social justice entails to self, one's profession, the various
institutions of which a health-care profession is a member, one's
patients, and the underserved. The course is a month-long hybrid of
online learning and a several-day intensive experience on the campus
of Loyola University Medical Center (Maywood, IL).
History of
Medicine & Bioethics (3 credits)
Course Number: BEHP413
Instructors: Kayhan Parsi, PhD
& John Hardt, PhD
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course seeks to situate and examine the emergence and development
of the field of bioethics within the history of medicine and the ethical
concerns embodied in medicine’s practice. The opening weeks of the
course will provide an overview of the history of medicine. The
remainder of the course will examine how bioethics emerged within this
broader history of medicine and continues today as a distinct
discipline. The course will be anchored by several history texts and
supplemented with primary source materials to further examine key
documents, persons, and events in the field of bioethics.
Master's Research Capstone (3 credits)
(Formerly
Research
in Bioethics and Health Policy)
Course Number: BEHP492
Instructors: Mark
Kuczewski, PhD, Kayhan
Parsi, JD, PhD,
John Hardt, PhD,
Lena Hatchett, PhD, Kevin
O'Rourke, OP, JCD, STM
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This capstone course provides an opportunity for the student to
develop a conceptual or empirical research project under the direction
of a mentor. The project culminates in production of a short manuscript
suitable for peer review by an appropriate journal.
