Section: Module 5: Lesson 2: Clinical Ethics Analysis | Humanism in Health and Healthcare | NextGenU.org

  • Learning Objectives:
    • Discuss the principles of clinical ethics and articulate four key domains of analysis ("the four topics") of clinical ethics issues.
    • Analyze the four key domains of clinical ethics analysis for where notions of humanism are manifest and where normative ethics analysis may not be fully humanistic.
    Approximate time required for the readings for this lesson (at 144 words/minute): 36 mins

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    • Required Learning Resources and Activities
    • Please read the article provided. Think about how the four topic approach brings together key normative considerations (ideas about what we morally are obligated to do), with the social and human experiences of patients (how they live and how they think about health and illness), and with the landscape of health and medicine (the availability of treatments and technology and the costs of those).

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