BTHX 5000-002/8000-002 | Care Ethics
Jan. 19 - May 3
Spring Semester Registration:
For Degree or Certificate Programs: Opens Tuesday, November 10
For Non-Degree and Visiting Students: Open Friday, December 4
Care Ethics examines the caring work that serves as the very foundation of health care. What does it mean to truly care for patients and how do we act out this care in light of the changing landscape in health care. This course examines the ethical complexities of caring in light of advancing medical technology, increasingly restrictive resource limitations, ableism in healthcare, medical gaslighting and changing perceptions in clinical trustworthiness among other issues. This course will explore the ethics of caring through a medical humanities lens. Through engagement with art, movies, poetry, and literature, students will gain a deeper understanding of what it means to care for patients. Course activities include participation in weekly discussion, movie viewings, and readings. Assignments include an art/literature analysis project and oral presentation.
Learning Objectives
After this course students will be able to:
Apply the principles of care ethics to clinical practice and encounters
Establish the meaning of care in health-related professions
Articulate diverse viewpoints on care ethics in healthcare
These courses welcome learners from various disciplinary backgrounds and are open to graduate students, professional degree students, and upper-level undergraduate students from the University of Minnesota and other institutions. They are also open to learners who are not currently in degree programs but wish to take courses, so long as they meet course prerequisites.
About the Instructors
Dr. Jaime Konerman-Sease, is a Clinical Ethics Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics where she teaches, provides clinical ethics consultation for MHealth Fairview, and researches in disability ethics, medical humanities, and religion.
Jon Tilbert, MD, is a physician, thinker, writer, and ethicist at Mayo Clinic in Phoenix. In his integrative medicine practice, he refines the art of presence and the power of listening with patients suffering from a range of chronic conditions. In the scholarly world, he is a trusted mentor, and proficient grant writer. His research portfolio explores how the beliefs, values, and worldviews of patients intersect with the beliefs, values, and worldviews of clinicians and healthcare organizations. In more recent creative non-fiction writing, he’s been exploring the contours and interrelationships among suffering, honesty, wonder, and connection (and their absences) in industrialized healthcare.