• Medicine is infused with moral values and is deeply embedded in a variety of social and cultural contexts which significantly determine the effectiveness of medical care in achieving healthy outcomes for patients and populations.
  • The objective of the biomedical and health ethics concentration in the MA program in applied ethics is to integrate academic and clinical dimensions of moral issues with medical practice and biomedical research.
  • Students from a broad range of backgrounds are exposed to the internal and external logics of medicine, health care and biotechnology, and they will gain substantive understanding of ethical, cultural and societal issues in a variety of domains through coursework and other experiences.
  • Students deliberate individually and collectively about a wide range of issues and problems in contemporary medicine and the history of medicine; develop advanced critical normative reasoning and judgment capacities; and cultivate effective communication skills for academic, clinical and policy contexts.