Loyola University Chicago

Department of Philosophy

PHIL 284: Health Care Ethics

PHIL 284: Health Care Ethics

The Generic Catalog Description

This is a course on the role of moral reasoning in the healthcare setting. Typical issues include: the meaning of such basic concepts as health and disease, truth-telling in medical practice and informed consent in experimental settings, the criteria for distributing medical resources and the issues of a right to health care, and questions about authority, responsibility and professional autonomy in the making of healthcare decisions.


PHIL 284: Health Care Ethics

Jennifer Parks, Mark Waymack

PHIL 284 is designed to provide you with an introduction to the philosophical approach to problems in health care ethics. You will be taught to recognize and critically apply various ethical theories and principles with a view to solving moral problems in a rationally defensible manner. We will consider different ethical theories such as utilitarianism, Kantian ethics, care ethics, and the four principles of health care ethics (justice, autonomy, beneficence, and non-maleficence). A number of problematic issues will be covered, including roles and relationships in health care, abortion, caring for persons who are aging, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, and assisted reproductive technology.

This course has an Ethics and Values (E&V) designation for the purposes of major specialization.


PHIL 284: Health Care Ethics

Taylor Rogers

This course draws upon historical and contemporary readings to critically examine influential and underrepresented viewpoints in healthcareethics. Covering a broad range of topics including theethics of abortion, vaccine ethics, and disability, the aim is to bring about a preliminary but rich understanding of some of today’s most pressing ethical issues in healthcare, as well as their stakes for different communities.

This course has an Ethics and Values (E&V) designation for the purposes of major specialization.


PHIL 284: Health Care Ethics

Takunda Matose

This course provides an introductory exploration of the ethical questions surrounding health, medicine, and the pursuit and provision of health care. In other words, this course explores questions about what health is and what is permissible and impermissible in its pursuit. Our survey will focus on issues in reproduction, health, disease, death, personhood, autonomy, consent, and biomedical research.

This course has an Ethics and Values (E&V) designation for the purposes of major specialization. It also fulfills a Writing Intensive (WI) requirement.


 

PHIL 284: Health Care Ethics

Amy Shuffelton

 

This course examines philosophical ethics as it informs and guides the activity of teaching.

This course has an Ethics and Values (E&V) designation for the purposes of major specialization.