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課程名稱

公共衛生倫理
Public Health Ethics

開課學期

99-2

授課對象

公共衛生學院健康政策與管理研究所

授課教師

吳建昌

課號

HPM7002

課程識別碼

848 M0020

班次

學分

全/半年

半年

必/選修

必修

上課時間

星期一5,6(12:20~14:10)

上課地點

公衛215

備註

限碩士班以上
總人數上限：80人
外系人數限制：10人

Ceiba 課程網頁

http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/992PHethics

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課程概述

This course aims at introducing students to the field of public health ethics through learning by doing. The first part reviews the basic ethical tenets of public health practices and the brief history of public health. The second part, providing representative readings of public health ethics debates, intends to train the students to use the newly acquired knowledge to make comments on several important public health issues, which include autonomy and paternalism, justice and health, infectious disease, occupational and environmental regulation, genetics and public health.

課程目標

At the end of this course students should be able to:
1.describe the nature and scope of public health;
2.compare major theories of public health ethics;
3.identify ethical issues in specific public health events; and
4.prepare ethical analysis of public health policy and practice.

課程要求

This course meets for two hours, once every two weeks in average. For each class students are required to read all assigned readings; and submit one-page note, which contains a summary of assigned readings and their personal reflections on last class.
On June 20, 2011, each student taking the course has to turn in their term paper in electronic format via e-mail to the e-mail address ccwu88@ntu.edu.tw. The designated structure of the term paper is as follows:
(1)Locate and describe a public health event in Taiwan;
(2)Recognize the situation or decision as one that raise ethical issue or dilemma;
(3)Break the ethical issue down to its component part;
-(a) Assess the factual information available to the decision maker
-(b) Identify the stakeholders in the decision
-(c) Identify the values at stake
-(d) Identify any relevant ethical, legal or professional guidance
-(e) Identify options available
-(f ) Consider the process of making decision and the value of that process
(4) Conducting critical ethical analysis;
(5) Justify your decision with sound arguments

The term paper, in the electronic format of Microsoft Word or others, should be 1.5-line-spaced, in no. 12 Times New Roman characters. The first page of the term paper should contain the title of the paper and the student’s name, school ID number, e-mail address, and the name of the program she or he belongs to. The main text shall not exceed 10 pages. (Those who write too long and do not have good justifications shall be punished by deduction in their final scores!!) Reference or endnotes should be listed. Plagiarism shall be handled according to the relevant regulations of National Taiwan University.

預期每週課後學習時數

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指定閱讀

請參考各週上課內容

參考書目

--Recommended Textbook
Bayer R, Gostin LO, Jennings B, Steinbock B, Public Health Ethics: Theory,
Policy, and Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

--Recommended Websites
Association of Schools of Public Health, Ethics and Public Health Model
Curriculum-- http://www.asph.org/document.cfm?page=782
Public Health Ethics-- http://phe.oxfordjournals.org/

評量方式
(僅供參考)

No.	項目	百分比	說明
1.	Individual reflection-and-summary note	30%
2.	Individual course participation	20%
3.	Term paper	50%

課程進度

週次	日期	單元主題
第1週	2/21	Welcome
第3週	3/07	Theories of Public Health Ethics
第4週	3/14	Social Determinants of Health
第6週	3/28	Brief History of Public Health
第8週	4/11	Autonomy and Paternalism
第10週	4/25	Infectious Disease
第12週	5/09	Environmental and Occupational Health
第14週	5/23	Genetics and Public Health
第17週	6/13	Justice and Health