Syllabi by Topic : Social Issues in Medicine

• "AIDS: The Interrelationship of its Associated Legal and Medical Issues." C.S. Keck, W. Rich. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Human Values in Medicine Program [BS/MD; selective; Winter 2000]; see also: AIDS, Health Care Policy, Law and Medicine, Medical Ethics.

• "AIDS, Medicine, and Cultural Studies." P. Treichler. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [medicine and graduate; seminar; elective; Spring 1994]; see also: AIDS.

• "Bioethics I, Patient, Physician and Society." W. Edinger, J. Skeel. Medical College of Ohio [1st year Medical Student; required; 2003-2004]; see also: Death and Dying, Ethnicity and Medicine, Health Care Policy, Medical Ethics, Physician-Patient Relationship, Professionalism.

• "Bioethics II, Patient, Physician and Society." W. Edinger, J. Skeel. Medical College of Ohio [2nd year Medical Student; required; 2003-2004]; see also: Aging, Death and Dying, Disability, Health Care Policy, Law and Medicine, Medical Ethics, Religion and Medicine.

• "Death, Suffering, Spirituality, and Medicine." G. Micco. UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program [MD; Graduate-level; elective; Spring 1999]; see also: Aging, Alternative Medicine, Death and Dying, Literature and Medicine, Medical Ethics, Physician-Patient Relationship, Religion and Medicine.

• "The Doctor's Life; Literature and Medicine." N. Wikoff. Dartmouth Medical School [medicine yrs 1 and 2 ; elective; Fall 1997]; see also: Death and Dying, Literature and Medicine, Physician-Patient Relationship , Professionalism.

• "Family Values ." D. Wear. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Human Values in Medicine Program [BS/MD; selective; Fall 1999]; see also: Aging, Literature and Medicine, Women and Medicine.

• "Gender and Communication: Improving Communications Between Men and Women ." D. Bensoff. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Human Values in Medicine Program [BS/MD; selective; Spring 2000]; see also: Behavioral Science, Gender and Medicine.

• "Health, Care, and Society II." W. Shelton, L. Jacoby. Albany Medical College [2nd year medicine; required; 1999-2000]; see also: Death and Dying, Health Care Policy, Medical Ethics, Religion and Medicine.

• "Health, Disease, and Medicine." K. Jones. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University [undergraduate; elective; Spring 1999]; see also: AIDS, Alternative Medicine, Behavioral Science, Ethnicity and Medicine, Health Care Policy, History of Medicine, Women and Medicine.

• "Health, Society, and Disease." N. Karnik. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [undergraduate; elective; Spring 1997]; see also: AIDS, Death and Dying, Literature and Medicine, Mental Illness, Women and Medicine.

• "History of Medicine." E. Dickstein. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Human Values in Medicine Program [BS/MD; selective; Spring 2000]; see also: History of Medicine, Medical Ethics, Physician-Patient Relationship.

• "The Humanities and Social Sciences in Medicine." M. Donohoe. Oregon Health and SciencesUniversity [medicine 4th yr; elective; March 2001]; see also: Alternative Medicine, Death and Dying, Ethnicity and Medicine, Gender and Medicine, Health Care Policy, History of Medicine, Law and Medicine, Literature and Medicine, Medical Ethics, Medicine and the Arts, Mental Illness, Physician-Patient Relationship, Women and Medicine.

• "In Search of the Good Doctor" M. Kohn. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Human Values in Medicine Program. [BS/MD; selective; Winter 2000.see also: Literature and Medicine, Physician-Patient Relationship.

• "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Medicine and Society." P. Treichler. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [undergraduate honors seminar; Spring 1995]; see also: AIDS, Health Care Policy, Medical Ethics, Physician-Patient Relationship, Women and Medicine.

• "Literature and the Healing Arts" B. Moore. Gannon University [undergraduate (senior); elective; Fall 2003; see also Aging, Death and Dying, Ethnicity and Medicine, Literature and Medicine, Medical Ethics, Physician-Patient Relationship, Women and Medicine.

• "Literature and Medicine: What's So Good About Getting Old?" G. Micco. UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program [MD; Graduate-level; elective; Fall 1998]; see also: Aging, Behavioral Science, Death and Dying, Disability Literature and Medicine, Mental Illness, Physician-Patient Relationship, Women and Medicine.

• "Literature, Medicine and Public Health." M. Donohoe. Oregon Health Sciences University [medicine and associated medical professional schools; elective; Winter 2000]; see also: Aging, Death and Dying, Literature and Medicine, Medical Ethics, Physician-Patient Relationship.

• "Managing Managed Care." J. Boex. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Human Values in Medicine Program [BS/MD; selective; Spring 2000] see also: Medical Ethics, Health Care Policy

• "Medical Ethics and the Presidential Physician: Stories of Doctors Confronted with Ethical Dilemmas." L. Deppisch. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Human Values in Medicine Program [BS/MD; selective; Spring 2000] see also: History of Medicine, Medical Ethics.

• Medical Humanities Elective II J. Shapiro. University of California, Irvine [2nd year Medical Student; required; Fall 1999 - Spring 2000]; see also: Aging, Aids, Death and Dying, Disability, Ethnicity and Medicine, Gender and Medicine, Literature and Medicine, Mental Illness, Physician-Patient Relationship, Professionalism.

• Medical Humanities in Patient - Doctor II D. Lie, J. Shapiro. University of California, Irvine [2nd year Medical Student; required; Fall 1999 - Spring 2000]; see also: Aging, Aids, Death and Dying, Disability, Ethnicity and Medicine, Gender and Medicine, Literature and Medicine, Mental Illness, Physician-Patient Relationship, Professionalism.

• Medical Humanities Program D. Kirklin. Royal Free and University College Medical School; see also: Death and Dying, Film and Medicine, Literature and Medicine, Medical Ethics, Medicine and the Arts, Professionalism.

• Medical Humanities Program B. Magwood. University of Manitoba Medical School; see also: History of Medicine, Medical Ethics, Medicine and the Arts, Religion and Medicine.

• "Medicine, Culture, and Self." J. Woodcock. University of Indiana-Bloomington [Undergraduate, Spring 2002]; see also: Death and Dying, Disability, Ethnicity and Medicine, Film and Medicine, Gender and Medicine, History of Medicine, Literature and Medicine, Medical Ethics, Mental Illness, Physician-Patient Relationship, Professionalism, War and Medicine, Women and Medicine.

• "Medicine, Ethics, and Law: The Practice of a Profession." D. Jamison. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Human Values in Medicine Program [BS/MD; selective; Spring 2000]; see also: Literature and Medicine, Medical Ethics, Physician-Patient Relationship, Professionalism.

• "Medicine, Money, and Morals: The Professional Promise of the Physician White Collar." B. Castellani. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Human Values in Medicine Program [BS/MD; selective; Spring 2000]; see also: Health Care Policy, History of Medicine, Medical Ethics,.

• "Medicine in Literature." M. McEntyre. Westmont College [undergraduate; elective; Spring 1999]; see also: Death and Dying, History of Medicine, Literature and Medicine, Physician-Patient Relationship, Women and Medicine.

• "Medicine and Society." P. Treichler, D. Bloomfield. University of Illinois-College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign [medicine and residency; required; Spring 1995]; see also: Death and Dying, Health Care Policy, History of Medicine, Law and Medicine, Medical Ethics, Physician-Patient Relationship.

• "Multiculturalism." J. Mahon. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Human Values in Medicine Program [BS/MD; selective; Spring 2000]; see also Ethnicity and Medicine, Film and Medicine, Medical Education.

• "The Nature of Illness" R. Martinez, J. Swaney [4th yr medicine, pastoral graduate; elective; Winter 2000]; see also: Aging, Death and Dying, Ethnicity and Medicine, Literature and Medicine, Medical Ethics, Physician-Patient Relationship, Professionalism, Religion and Medicine.

• "The Physician's Role in Health Promotion and Education ." C. Symons. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Human Values in Medicine Program [BS/MD; selective; Spring 2000]; see also: Health Care Policy.

• "Professionalism and Power." D. Benshoff. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Human Values in Medicine Program [BS/MD; selective; Fall 1999]; see also: Physician-Patient Relationship, Professionalism.

• Program in Medical Humanities, East Carolina University School of Medicine L. Kopelman [required courses in all four years; Selectives in fourth year Fall 1999-2000].
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• Science Fiction and Medicine: Modern Technology's Impact on the Individual." B. Pomidor. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Human Values in Medicine Program [BS/MD; selective; Winter 2000]; see also: Literature and Medicine Medicine and Technology.

• "Shades of Medicine: Race, Ethnicity, and Culture K. Durgans. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Human Values in Medicine Program [BS/MD; selective; Spring 2000]; see also: Alternative Medicine, Ethnicity and Medicine, Physician-Patient Relationship.

• "Sociology of Refugees and Genocide." N. Karnik. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [undergraduate; elective; Spring 1996]; see also: Death and Dying, Health Care Policy, War and Medicine, Women and Medicine.

• "Women's Health: Views from Literature, Communities, and Clinical Medicine ." D. Wear. Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Human Values in Medicine Program [BS/MD; selective; Winter 2000]; see also: Aging, Gender and Medicine, Literature and Medicine, Women and Medicine..

• "Wounded Storytellers: Narratives of Illness in Literature." J. Shapiro. University of California, Irvine [freshman honors seminar; elective; Spring 2000]; see also: Aging, Aids, Alternative Medicine, Disability, Ethnicity and Medicine, Literature and Medicine, Mental Illness, Physician-Patient Relationship.