Medical Ethics Humanities — Premed

Medical Ethics Humanities: 28 lectures in Premed (Premed). What Is Medicine? What Is Health? Defining the Field · History of Western Medicine: From Hippocrates to Evidence-Based Practice · Major Ethical Frameworks: Deontology, Utilitarianism, Virtue Ethics, Principlism · The Four Principles: Autono…

  1. Lecture 1: What Is Medicine? What Is Health? Defining the Field
  2. Lecture 2: History of Western Medicine: From Hippocrates to Evidence-Based Practice
  3. Lecture 3: Major Ethical Frameworks: Deontology, Utilitarianism, Virtue Ethics, Principlism
  4. Lecture 4: The Four Principles: Autonomy, Beneficence, Non-Maleficence, Justice
  5. Lecture 5: Informed Consent: History, Requirements, and Edge Cases
  6. Lecture 6: Confidentiality and the Limits of Privacy in Healthcare
  7. Lecture 7: Truth-Telling, Prognosis, and Breaking Bad News
  8. Lecture 8: Cultural Humility and Cross-Cultural Medicine
  9. Lecture 9: Reproductive Ethics: Contraception, Abortion, Assisted Reproduction
  10. Lecture 10: Newborn and Pediatric Ethics; Parental Authority
  11. Lecture 11: End-of-Life Care: Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision-Making
  12. Lecture 12: Physician-Assisted Death, Palliative Sedation, and the Line Between
  13. Lecture 13: Distributive Justice and Resource Allocation
  14. Lecture 14: Health Disparities: Race, Class, Gender, and Geography
  15. Lecture 15: Global Health Ethics and Medical Tourism
  16. Lecture 16: Conflicts of Interest: Industry, Research, and Clinical Practice
  17. Lecture 17: History of Research Ethics: Tuskegee, Nuremberg, Belmont
  18. Lecture 18: IRBs, Vulnerable Populations, and Consent in Research
  19. Lecture 19: Genetic Testing, Gene Editing, and the Ethics of Enhancement
  20. Lecture 20: AI and Emerging Technologies in Medicine
  21. Lecture 21: Narrative Medicine: Reading Illness Narratives
  22. Lecture 22: The Physician's Voice: Writing, Witnessing, Burnout, and Moral Injury
  23. Lecture 23: Visual Arts and Medicine: Observation Skills and the Medical Gaze
  24. Lecture 24: Disability Studies and the Social Model of Illness
  25. Lecture 25: Case Conference: A Complex Case Spanning Multiple Ethical Issues
  26. Lecture 26: Student-Led Case Presentations I
  27. Lecture 27: Student-Led Case Presentations II
  28. Lecture 28: Course Synthesis: What Kind of Physician Will You Be?