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Scholarly Projects

Medical Humanities and Ethics

Concentration Learning Objectives

  • Identify and discuss some central philosophical, historical, legal, ethical, and other humanistic issues of importance to biomedicine and health care.
  • Identify and discuss relevant theories, principles, and frameworks for considering issues in medical humanities and ethics.
  • Identify and discuss relevant research methodologies for addressing issues in medical humanities and ethics.
  • Illustrate and interpret the complex range of cultural, social, scientific, and medical contexts within which issues in medical humanities and ethics arise.
  • Locate scholarly publications and other relevant literature in medical ethics and humanities using appropriate library resources.
  • Critically evaluate primary and secondary scholarly literature in medical humanities and ethics.
  • Critically examine selected debates in medical humanities and ethics.
  • Design and develop a scholarly research project in an area of medical humanities and ethics.
  • Present and defend the design of a scholarly research project, orally and in writing, to peers and faculty.
  • Conduct the scholarly research project.
  • Present and defend progress on the scholarly research project, orally and in writing, to peers and faculty.
  • Present and orally defend the written version of the scholarly research project.