JUSTICE AND HEALTH CARE

Name: JUSTICE AND HEALTH CARE
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Rating: 4.3 (165 reviews)

MEDHIST/PHILOS 505

课程描述

Examines ethical issues in the distribution, financing, and delivery of health care (primarily in the United States). Explores key issues in U.S. health policy and forms the empirical foundation for the rest of the class. Engages is ongoing debates in moral and political philosophy over putative entitlements to health and health care. Investigates the nature, justifiability, and methods of health care rationing (including bedside rationing by doctors) and the myriad issues implicated by the near-universally shared goal of health care cost containment.

先修课程

Junior standing

满足要求

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

学分

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开课时间

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平均绩点

3.52

2.55% 相比历史数据

完成率

95.83%

0.08% 相比历史数据

A率

41.67%

12.7% 相比历史数据

班级规模

-12.73% 相比历史数据

Cumulative Grade Distribution

教师 (2026 Summr)

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