Course is designed to be co-taught by members of the Department of Philosophy and the Division of Critical Care Medicine of the Department of Anesthesiology linking together philosophy and the study and practice of medicine.
Course is divided into three parts of approximately five weeks per section.
Course begins with a historical treatment of the growth of medicine, and economic transformations accompanying these intellectual changes. The third section considers questions of ethics and medical problems. Each section deals with a case study approach as a way to focus both the theoretical and practical implications of these questions. Students will be provided a syllabus the first day of the course listing the topics and required readings. Students will complete written essays for each section of the course, as well as a final paper and weekly quizzes on the readings.