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Aug 30, 2025
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Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog
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HCB 522 - The Role of Virtue Ethics in Medicine
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and the role of virtue ethics are central to many religious traditions including Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, and the philosophical traditions. Key virtues include honesty, courage, generosity, prudence, justice, compassion, benevolence, loyalty, and hospitality. This course explores the real and potential role of virtue on the development of virtuous physicians. The course’s texts offer two diametrically opposed views on the role of virtue in medicine, i.e., one is that virtue can be channeled into the training of medical professionals, whereas the other is that bioethics has extracted virtue from medicine. Through readings, documentaries, dialogue and active leadership of sessions by students, the course will interrogate the claims as well as possibilities for a role of virtue in medicine.
3 credits
Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)
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