Spring 2027

Ethical Issues in Health Care

Examines ethical issues arising from new biomedical technologies including genetic screening, prenatal diagnosis, in vitro fertilization, psychosurgery, and transplantation.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

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Past student reviews · Robert Streiffer

A past student rated the difficulty as moderate, though they did not provide specific details about weekly hours or assessment intensity.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Gain knowledge about ethical issues in healthcare

  • Communicate precisely and concisely in both writing and speech

  • Think critically about arguments related to ethical issues in health care with the aim of uncovering the truth

  • Practice interpretive charity and intellectual honesty, which includes appropriate attribution to others of their ideas, and recognition and frankness about the limitations of one’s own ideas

  • Independently locate and engage with the latest relevant empirical and philosophical research relevant to evaluating ethical issues in health care

  • Exhibit substantial synthetic and analytic abilities in considering the ethical dimensions of ethical issues in health care

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

Grade history

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Prerequisites

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Junior standing

  • Junior standing
MEDHIST/PHILOS 558

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Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ROBERT K STREIFFER is recorded teaching in Spring 2008, Spring 2010, Spring 2012, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 600
DIS 301Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 302Classroom Instruction0 / 200
DIS 303Classroom Instruction0 / 200
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 600
DIS 301Classroom Instruction0 / 150
DIS 302Classroom Instruction0 / 150
DIS 303Classroom Instruction0 / 150

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Robert Streiffer

Students described the course as exceptional, noting that the organization and teaching methods provided an eye-opening experience in healthcare ethics.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.71 GPA, 94.5% A/AB (n=55 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.51 GPA, 89.1% A/AB (n=46 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.86 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=43 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Robert Streiffer

A past student rated the difficulty as moderate, though they did not provide specific details about weekly hours or assessment intensity.

Past student reviews · Robert Streiffer

The reviewer highlighted that the professor and T.A. were excellent, contributing to a highly recommended learning environment.

Topics

  • Biomedical technologies and associated ethical dilemmas
  • Philosophical argumentation in health care ethics

Skills

  • Knowledge of ethical issues in healthcare
  • Critical thinking about ethical arguments
  • Interpretive charity and intellectual honesty
  • Locating and engaging with relevant research

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records
MEDHIST/PHILOS 558 · Spring 2027

Ethical Issues in Health Care

Recorded 2026-10-14
MEDHIST/PHILOS 558 · Spring 2027

Ethical Issues in Health Care

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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