This interdisciplinary course is aimed at students interested in the health professions who are looking to gain awareness of the critical ways in which humanities disciplines can help to attune future health professionals to a number of critical and complicated issues that they will encounter in their practices. These issues include the problem of defining health, bioethical questions (abortion, physician assisted suicide, genetic testing, etc.), and relationships between patients and health professionals. This course will make use of a number of important disciplinary practices from the humanities and social sciences to attune students to these issues and give them the resources for handling them better in professional health care contexts [3 credits]
This interdisciplinary course is aimed at students interested in the health professions who are looking to gain awareness of the critical ways in which humanities disciplines can help to attune future health professionals to a number of critical and complicated issues that they will encounter in their practices. These issues include the problem of defining health, bioethical questions (abortion, physician assisted suicide, genetic testing, etc.), and relationships between patients and health professionals. This course will make use of a number of important disciplinary practices from the humanities and social sciences to attune students to these issues and give them the resources for handling them better in professional health care contexts [3 credits]
