HHMN 230 - Ethics of Health and Healing

3 Hour(s)

This course explores the ethical issues, principles and theories regarding health and healing with particular attention to how different cultures and groups understand health, disease, disability, and healing systems. Students examine how care decisions can create tensions between individual rights and the common good, how religious beliefs can intersect with health choices, and how gender, race, ethnicity, and class relate to health inequities. The course introduces ethical principles, moral theories, and values such as truth-seeking, care, and empathy as guides to ethical reasoning in matters that may include aging and end of life care, eugenics, mental illness, or other topics.

General Education Requirements: Ethical Inquiry; Global Awareness/Intercultural Knowledge and Engagement; Writing Intensive