PHIL 314 - THE PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE
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Department: Philosophy
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Description: THE PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE
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DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 1
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The biomedical sciences, the practice of medicine, and health care policy employ concepts of health, disease, disability , and defect in explanatory accounts, intermixing factual cliams with moral and other evaluations. This course explores the interplay of evaluation and explanation in medicine's models of disease and health.