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課程名稱	公共衛生倫理 Public Health Ethics
開課學期	103-1
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	1
全/半年	半年
必/選修	必修
上課時間	星期一7,8(14:20~16:20)
上課地點	公衛201
備註	限碩士班以上總人數上限：200人外系人數限制：100人
Ceiba 課程網頁	http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1031HPM7002
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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. On the second part of the course, each student will be assigned to either one of the six panels. Preparing themselves by studying the assigned reading materials and case examples (if any), each panel shall engage in interactions with the teacher at the designated class for the purpose of enhancing learning for all the class participants. The students shall ask absence according to university regulations if they could not attend class. The teaching assistant might call the roll from time to time. Those students who actively and constructively participate in class discussion shall be rewarded with increased course grades. On Jan 19, 2015, each student taking the course has to turn in their term paper in electronic format to Dr. Kevin Chien-Chang Wu’s 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 fonts or 新細明體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 15 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.
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參考書目	Recommended Textbook Bayer R, Gostin LO, Jennings B, and Steinbock B eds., Public Health Ethics: Theory, Policy, and Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Anand S, Peter F, and Sen A eds., Public Health, Ethics, and Equity, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. (An electronic book available at the National Taiwan University Library) Coughlin, SS, Case Studies in Public Health Ethics, Washington D.C.: American Public Health Association, 2009. (An electronic book available at the National Taiwan University Library) 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/
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課程進度

週次	日期	單元主題
第1週	09/15	Welcome + theories of public health ethics I
第3週	09/29	Theories of public health ethics II
第5週	10/13	Theories of public health ethics III
第7週	10/27	Autonomy and paternalism
第9週	11/10	Infectious disease: The protection of society
第11週	11/24	Environmental and Occupational Health
第13週	12/08	Genetics and Public Health
第15週	12/22	Health and justice
第17週	104/01/05	Public health research ethics