History of Healthcare Ethics, Loma Linda University

Focuses on the lives of noteworthy figures in the health-care professions. Biographies, diaries, literature, and film used by students to identify and analyze the moral virtues and vision of heroic physicians, nurses, and public health advocates from the ancients to the present. Note that this course was previously titled Heroes of Healthcare. Although it is hosted by the Religion and Bioethics Program, medical students who undertake the MD Program with Bioethics are eligible to enrol. This information has been collected for the Post-Discipline Online Syllabus Database. The database explores the use of literature by schools of professional education in North America. It forms part of a larger project titled Post-Discipline: Literature, Professionalism, and the Crisis of the Humanities, led by Dr Merve Emre with the assistance of Dr Hayley G. Toth. You can find more information about the project at https://postdiscipline.english.ox.ac.uk/. Data was collected and accurate in 2021/22.