Seminar
An undergraduate seminar course for majors and minors in the Theology department; variable content, addressing topical issues that are not covered by the regular offerings at the 300 level.
Outcomes: Students will gain an in-depth understanding of a selected topic.
Health, Suffering, Disability, and the Bible
An undergraduate seminar course for majors and minors in the Theology department; variable content, addressing topical issues that are not covered by the regular offerings at the 300 level.
Outcomes: Students will gain an in-depth understanding of a selected topic.
This seminar will examine ethical issues in bioethics, with special attention to suffering, concepts of illness and health, and disability. The course will explore narratives of suffering from medical trauma (accidents, illness), chronic illnesses, and the theological, ethical, and bioethical interpretations of suffering. Finally, guided by these foundational understandings of suffering, health, and ethics, the course will take up actual issues, among them mental health and disability ethics, which has changed considerably over the last decades. We will survey some recent publications regarding the history of disability policies, disability studies, and its intersection with theology and bioethics.
The course is designed for students with interests in Bioethics and Christian Ethics. It is a collaborative course between the Theology Department and the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics. The group from the College of Arts and Sciences will regularly meet in person to discuss the bioethical questions, with a parallel course (BEHL 510) taught by Dr. Michael McCarthy, and offered online to students enrolled in the MA and Doctoral programs in Bioethics and Healthcare Mission Leadership at the Neiswanger Institute.
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