Electives
Ethics in Health Care
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.
Medicine, Meaning and Morality
Course Description:
This course, offered at both the School of Public Health and Rice, introduces students to the medical humanities - a relatively new field which addresses moral, legal, spiritual and religious problems spawned by the rise of high-tech medicine and high-stakes biomedical research.
Materials include clinical case studies, film, and reader's theatre as well as historical, philosophical, literary, and theological writings.
Research Ethics for Public Health
Course Description:
Offered at the School of Public Health, this course presents a survey of ethical issues in health care research with implications for future public health investigators.
In addition to topical areas and the history of research ethics, case-based discussions will deal with foundational concepts such as ethical issues in study design and methods; informed consent; oversight issues and the responsibilities of investigators in protecting human subjects.
Students will become familiar with moral issues in research and develop an ethical framework for planning and conducting investigations.
