2024-25 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Jan 29, 2025  
2024-25 Undergraduate Catalog
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PHI 321 - Medical Ethics

Consideration of ethical issues as they arise in contemporary medical practice and related health-care professions. Readings from philosophy, law and medicine. Prerequisite: Three hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Fulfills: LASR; WI. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code O = offered occasionally

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Summarize the major ethical concepts and theories used in medical ethics by an evaluation of the relevant texts.
  2. Apply these concepts and theories to areas of contemporary concern by the construction of a reasoned philosophical argument.
  3. Identify the ethical dimensions of diversity, pluralism and marginality in medical ethics through critical reflection.



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