Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Philosophy

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE ***** DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 1 ***** 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.