Medical Humanities and Ethics
Undergraduate and Graduate Seminar
Tu 1-4PM
Bioethics is an amorphous field that draws on disciplines including anthropology, philosophy, political science, and law. Sstudents will examine issues in health and medicine as represented in global narrative cinema. The course uses film as both a tool for and object of analysis – pairing films with scholarly writing as we examine topics surfaced the ways they are depicted. The course engages with the ethics of representing sexual and other types of violence; some material in the course may be triggering. We will examine such topics as surrogacy, euthanasia, human research, healthcare worker burnout, and the imbrication of money and medicine.
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