Electives:
Ethics in Health Care

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Course Description:

This fall seminar is offered to students at the School of Public Health and Rice. From a public health perspective it presents a systematic overview of major ethical issues in health care and policy.

Students learn how to identify the primary features of an ethical problem in health care; become familiar with the language and discourse of health care ethics; recognize and analyze the social and policy dimensions of ethical dilemmas in health care; and formulate a process for preventing and/or resolving ethical conflicts.