Through an independent study format, students would have the opportunity to explore some particular pertinent topic. Such topics might include: history or literature of medicine; public health ethics; rural health disparities; health care ethics; reproductive ethics; sexual ethics; patients’ rights; aging and medical decision-making; environmental bioethics; regulation of scarce resources; and pending legislation affecting medicine
Fourth-year elective only.
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.
History
Subject Area
Medicine
Geographic Region
South Atlantic
University or College
East Carolina University (Brody)
Funding Status
Public
Endowment (according to NACUBO's U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Value and Change* in Endowment Market Value from FY19 to FY20) ($1,000)
211971
Annual Tuition and Mandatory Fees 2021-2022 ($) (Resident; Non-resident, where applicable)
23310
Course Title
Humanities and Medicine
Terminal Degree of Instructor(s)
No assigned instructor; independent study course
Position of Instructor(s)
No assigned instructor; independent study course
Academic Year(s) Active
2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22; course may be longer running, but archives unavailable.