JWST 3050 Jewish Health and Medical Ethics 3.0 Credits
This course offers resources for and approaches to Jewish biomedical and health ethics. Students will examine Jewish positions on such topics as abortion, medical decisions at the end of life, advance directives, transplantation, reproductive technologies, and allocation of health care resources, considering the role of Jewish texts, values, and ethics in addressing contemporary health and medicine. This course will consider what role the history of antisemitism plays in modern considerations around Jewish bodies, paying particular attention to Nazi medical experimentation and the use of those studies in contemporary times. Students will look at the long history of antisemitism in the depiction of Jewish bodies and Jewish practice, considering what role these depictions have played in medical considerations.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit