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STS-3314: Medical Dilemmas and Human Experience

Description: Provides a humanist perspective on dilemmas of medical ethics. Focus on the varieties of human experience of medical dilemmas. Topics include contemporary controversies, such as assisted reproduction, genetic testing and treatment, clinical trials, end-of-life interventions, and the allocation of health-care resources.

Pathways: 2 Critical Thinking Humanities, 10 Ethical Reasoning

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: N/A

Required By: SOC-4324, STS-4324

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 33

Average GPA: 3.72 (rounds to A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 65.22%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.58%

John K Aggrey202375.5%19.2%2.9%0.0%2.4%0.0%3.603
Philip R Olson202479.0%16.6%2.1%1.2%0.2%0.8%3.7115
Liora O Goldensher202280.8%16.9%2.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.692
Cora M Olson202487.2%8.5%1.0%0.6%2.0%0.7%3.7811
Pratyusha P Kiran202380.0%20.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.801
Roan G Parrish202357.2%42.9%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.491

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