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Aug 02, 2025
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PHR 2006 - CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON RACE ANDGENDER IN BIOMEDICAL ETHICS
credits: 3.0
One of the key ways gender and racial differences are constituted is through biomedical discourse. Will focus on historical and contemporary cases to examine the ethical stakes of medical discourse and practice, paying careful attention to the gender and racial issues of these cases. Specific issues addressed include human experimentation, reproduction, death and dying, and human enhancement. Objectives: A) Identify various ways that medical discourse and practices have historically constituted racial and gender differences in Europe and the United States; B) Evaluate various historical effects of these differences as constituted through medical discourse and practices; C) Analyze how these representations of racial and gender differences continue to manifest themselves in medical discourse and practice today. Method of Instruction: Lecture and discussion. Method of Evaluation: Reading quizzes, exams, and short papers. Meets *WEP Distribution Requirement.
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