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 International Bioethics Education Program
Instructor: Cynthia Griggins, Ph.D.
This 3-credit course will focus on the ethical issues involved in mental health care, especially since the deinstitutionalization of our mental health system in the 1970s, and will contrast the management of these issues in the US and European systems. After reviewing the history of psychiatric care in the US and Europe, issues such as the diagnosis of mental illness, illness and responsibility, and mental patients’ rights to refuse or receive treatment will be explored. Teaching will include guided field experiences in clinics and hospitals and a museum of psychiatry, and regular discussion sessions with the course faculty. Students will be expected to become familiar with the literature on concepts in mental health ethics and policies relevant to course topics in both countries. This course is relevant for students of psychology, social work, law, medicine, and ethics. The course is open to undergraduate and graduate students.
Flight Information:
March 6 CLE 4:15 pm-6:10 pm #DL6396
March 6 JFK 7:20 pm-9:10 am #DL140
March 15 BRU 10:00 am-1:40 pm #DL141
March 15 JFK 7:25 pm-9:32 pm #DL6479
Photo, top right: Brussels Square.
March 2009 courses
March 2009 courses take place March 9-13, trip March 6-15.
- BETH 315/415: French Perspectives on Controversies at the Beginning and End of Life-Paris, France
- BETH 315/415: Public Health Ethics: Focus on the Netherlands
- BETH 315/415: From Bio-Piracy to Bio-Policing: Ethical Issues in International
Genomic Research, Public Health Genetics, and DNA-based Forensics (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- BETH 315/415: International Women's Health Issues: Focus on Netherlands
- BETH 315/415: Mental Health Ethics--"Stigma, Deinstitutionalization, and the Severely Mentally Ill: European and American Experiences"--Belgium,NL
- BETH 315/415: European Perspectives on Bioethics--Salamanca, Spain
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