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Understanding Health: Critical Thinking, Bioethics, and Social Perspectives

Explore the interdisciplinary field of health from epistemological, ethical, and sociological viewpoints. Learn critical thinking and writing skills to analyze complex health issues, navigate bioethical dilemmas, and engage in dialectic techniques. Emphasis on civility, responsibility, and attendance for successful completion. Lectures, recitations, tests, papers, and discussions on various theoretical stances in health sociology. Sharpen your argumentation and analytical skills through logical reasoning and evidentiary support. Address real-world scenarios involving health choices and ethical considerations. Engage in thought-provoking discussions to broaden understanding of health beyond mere absence of disease.

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Understanding Health: Critical Thinking, Bioethics, and Social Perspectives

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  1. Introduction • Purposes of Class • Social viewpoint on health (epistemology) • Bioethics (defined) • Critical thinking and writing • Dialectic techniques

  2. Expectations • Civility • Responsibility • Attendance • Grades

  3. Introduction • Lectures twice weekly • Recitation once weekly • Separate syllabi/ readings • grades 2/3’s for lecture portion and 1/3 for recitation • Recitation requires attendance • 25% A’s by departmental mandate

  4. Grades, Papers and Tests • Grades on standard CU scale • Rounded up if fraction above the number • Two tests including the final • One paper • Recitation has separate assignments

  5. Attendance • Required if you wish to do well • Material contains some sexual information because of the health content of the class—if you are uncomfortable with the information please contact me. There is no intent to harass.

  6. Instructor Availability • Ketchum 11A 11am Tuesdays or by appointment • Email is best way to communicate • TA available to consult as well • Instructions for papers and reviews IN CLASS • If you skip, you lose

  7. Type of Thinking • Emotive • Utilitarian • Intellectual • Ideological • Critical

  8. Critical Thinking • Critical thinking has to do with seeing two sides of EVERY issue, the supportive evidence for each and make a logical choice of action based on intellect and epistemology • Pragmatism vs. Ideology • Evidence vs. enunciation/rhetoric

  9. Sources of Thought • Media • Research • Socialization • Ideology • All these sources have an underlying epistemology that you must recognize and adjust for

  10. Sociological relationships • Norms, values and beliefs • Patterns of behavior • Conflict versus consensus • Open versus closed thinking • Structure versus action • Individual versus society • Socialization

  11. Medicine—Theoretical Stances • Health Sociology defined • Biological model • Socio-biological model • Social model • Art versus Science?

  12. Health • Not just absence of disease • Durkheim and the categorization process • Complexity—example—the interaction between genetics and behavior results in health status

  13. Health • Includes Illness and health • Prevention of disease and public health • Injury and illness • Issues of natural science related to social action

  14. Reading writing and thinking • Critical thought requires information • What information? • How do you obtain it? • Reliability and validity • Filters • Experience

  15. Critical writing • Make an outline • Argue both sides • Clear, concise statements • Evidentiary support is key, logical ordering • Make your case in strong and straightforward logical manner • Be prepared to defend your viewpoint with facts, not emotion

  16. Example • Two young people “hook up” after a party • The woman becomes pregnant and decides on an abortion • The young man sees the woman before the abortion occurs and asserts a right to decisional capacity in the decision • Does he have a right in law?; in ethical sense?

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