Spring 2027

Clinical Ethics - Individual and Population Considerations

Examines how ethical issues in clinical practice affect public health outcomes, focusing on the interplay between clinical ethics and population health through ethical frameworks and case analysis.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Karola Kreitmair

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate understanding of the interplay between clinical ethics as an applied domain grounded in clinical practice, and public health as the pursuit of health and wellbeing for all members of society

  • Critically assess how the public health principles of trust, interdependence, and distributional justice are affected by clinical ethics principles such as beneficence and autonomy.

  • Clarify diverse moral and cultural values that generate various clinical ethics and public health tensions.

  • Identify the ethically salient features of a clinical case and evaluate their implication on moral decision-making and public health outcomes

  • Clearly and concisely articulate issues related to public health and clinical ethics

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Prerequisites

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MED SC-M 810, 811, 812, and 813

MEDHIST 745

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Professors

Spring 2027
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KAROLA KREITMAIR is recorded teaching in Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Examine how ethical issues in clinical practice affect public health outcomes. Gain an understanding of the ethical frameworks and practices that are employed in medicine, in order to understand the complex interplay between public health and clinical care. Develop the ability to identify the ethically salient features of a patient case and to employ ethical analysis to generate recommendations that improve public health outcomes.

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Topics

  • Ethical frameworks and practices in medicine
  • Public health principles: trust, interdependence, and distributional justice
  • Moral and cultural values generating clinical ethics and public health tensions
  • Ethically salient features of clinical cases and moral decision-making

Skills

  • Identify ethically salient features of a patient case and employ ethical analysis to generate recommendations.
  • Critically assess how public health principles are affected by clinical ethics principles.
  • Articulate issues related to public health and clinical ethics clearly and concisely.

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UW–Madison

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MEDHIST 745 · Spring 2027

Clinical Ethics - Individual and Population Considerations

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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