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 International Bioethics Education Program
This 3-credit course allows students to familiarize themselves with the United States and Dutch social policies and practices related to women's health issues. Issues covered in the course include birth control and family planning, abortion, prenatal testing, childbirth, health care disparities, cosmetic surgery, domestic and family violence issues, prostitution and trafficking in women. This course also addresses the US and Dutch national policies regarding the public provision of health care for women. The course will place an emphasis on the ways in which social norms shape policies over time, which political actors are involved in shaping women's health policy, and the balance between women's health as a matter of the public good or individual responsibility.
This course will help students develop the analytical skills necessary for evaluating social policy and ethical issues in women's health. The course includes a ten-day trip to the Netherlands over Spring Break, where students are taught by instructors and faculty from universities in the Netherlands. The trip also includes guided tours of health care facilities, clinics, and social institutions. Prior to the trip, students will attend an orientation with the Director of International Programs, and two two-hour pre-trip seminars with the instructor at Case Western Reserve University or via a web-based tutorial. Students will be expected to become familiar with the literature on the concepts in social policy and ethics relevant to course topics in both countries prior to the trip. Following the trip, students will meet with the instructor for an additional two hour wrap-up session to compare policies and practices in the United States and the Netherlands. Attendance and active participation in the pre-trip seminar, all didactics, and observational experiences during the trip to the Netherlands, and the post-trip wrap-up seminar make up 50% of the final grade. Writing assignments make up the remaining 50% of the final grade, and consist of a short pre-trip paper based on the course readings, and a more substantial final paper that synthesizes the course readings, lectures, and site visits to compare and contrast US and Dutch approaches to one particular women's health issue.
Flight Information: NOTE: Two different sets of flight information are posted. Students will be assigned to Plan A or Plan B.
Plan A:
March 6 CLE 2:26 pm-3:46 pm #UA7163
March 6 IAD 5:56 pm-7:15 am #UA946
March 15 AMS 11:20 am-2:59 pm #UA947
March 15 IAD 5:00 pm-6:19
pm #UA7135
Plan B:
March 5 CLE 2:26 pm-3:46 pm #UA7163
March
5 IAD 5:58 pm-7:15 am #UA946
March 15 AMS 9:55 am-1:20 pm #UA909
March 15 ORD 4:50 pm-7:05 pm #UA7328
Administrative Information:
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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: 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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