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Home Departments for Bioethics Minor Courses

In the lists below, courses are only listed under their home departments; crosslistings are in parentheses. If a course is taken under its crosslisted department/number, it still counts as a course belonging to the home department.

Examples:

  • If you take SOCI 259, it counts as an HSOC course because it belongs to HSOC (260)
  • If you take HSOC 118, it counts as a SOCI course because it belongs to SOCI (118)
  • If you take HSOC 101, it counts as a PHIL course (PHIL 072)

  • ANTH 234: Pharmaceuticals and Global Health 
  • ANTH 238: Intro to Medical Anthropology 
  • ANTH 260: Cultures of Science and Technology 
  • ANTH 273:  Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives
  • ANTH 332: Medicine and the Language of Pain 
  • ANTH 337: Cross Cultural Methods in Health & Public Policy
  • ANTH 402: Research Skills in Global Health 19A 
  • ANTH 441: Cross-Cultultural Approaches to Health & Illne

  • BIOE 402/602: Conceptual Foundations 19A 18A 
  • BIOE 505: Bioethics, Sexuality, & Gender 
  • BIOE 540: Managing Patient/Caregiver Conflict 
  • BIOE 550: Ethics of Public Health 
  • BIOE 550: Bioethics and the Law
  • BIOE 550:  Culture Wars: Bioethics in a Diverse Society 
  • BIOE 551: History of Medicine 
  • BIOE 551: Narrative Ethics: Health, Medicine, and Literature 
  • BIOE 551: Bioethics and Film
  • BIOE 552: Bioethics and the Body 
  • BIOE 552: Cultural Competency: Race, Gender, and Disability in Medicine
  • BIOE 553: History of Bioethics
  • BIOE 555: Mind Matters: Emerging Ethical Issues in Neuroscience
  • BIOE 556: Evidence in Bioethics and Health Policy 
  • BIOE 558: Ethical Issues in Reproductive Health 
  • BIOE 560: Pediatric Ethics
  • BIOE 565: Rationing and Resource Allocation 
  • BIOE 570: Bioethics and Genetics
  • BIOE 570:  Bioethics and National Security
  • BIOE 571:  Global Health Policy
  • BIOE 572: Global Bioethics 
  • BIOE 575: Health Policy
  • BIOE 578: Bioethics and Human Rights
  • BIOE 580: Research Ethics 
  • BIOE 590: Death and Dying
  • BIOE 590: Ethics in Mental Healthcare
  • BIOE 603: Advanced Clinical Ethics

**BIOE courses are graduate level courses requiring instructor permission for undergraduates to register**

  • HSOC 002: Medicine in History
  • HSOC 032: Risky Business
  • HSOC 042: Snip and Tuck
  • HSOC 052: Autism Epidemic
  • HSOC 059: Medical Missionaries & Partner
  • HSOC 102: Bioethics 
  • HSOC 140: History of Bioethics 
  • HSOC 145: Comparative Medicine 19A 17C 
  • HSOC 150: American Health Policy
  • HSOC 152: Technology and Medicine in Modern America 
  • HSOC 206: Doing Good?: Humanitarianism and Global Health 
  • HSOC 216: Gender and Health
  • HSOC 260: Social Determinants of Health 
  • HSOC 331: Reproductive Medicine 
  • HSOC 358: The Human Subject
  • HSOC 391: Bioethics and National Security 
  • HSOC 421: Medicine and Development
  • HSOC 430: Disease and Society

  • SOCI 041: Social Inequality and Health 
  • SOCI 111: Health of Populations
  • SOCI 118: Sociology of Bioethics 
  • SOCI 134: Health and Social Policy
  • SOCI 175: Medical Sociology 
  • SOCI 231: Global Health
  • SOCI 277: Sociology of Men
  • SOCI 307: Race, Science and Justice

  • PHIL 002: Ethics
  • PHIL 008: The Social Contract
  • PHIL 072-301: Biomedical Ethics 17A 
  • PHIL 072-401: Biomedical Ethics
  • PHIL 372: Topics in Ethics: Being Human
  • PHIL 073: Topics in Ethics: Global Ethics
  • PHIL 077: Philosophy of Law
  • PHIL 202: Duties & Consequences
  • PHIL 272: Reproductive Ethics
  • PHIL 277: Justice, Law, and Morality

  • PSCI 135: The Politics of Food & Agriculture
  • PSCI 221: Health Policy and Politics in Comparative Perspective
  • PSCI 335: Healthy Schools
  • PSCI 414: Comparative Politics of the Welfare State