700.624.01
Bioethics and Infectious Diseases: Ethical, Legal, and Human Rights Issues

Discontinued

Location
East Baltimore
Term
4th Term
Department
Berman Institute (Bioethics)
Credit(s)
3
Academic Year
2016 - 2017
Instruction Method
TBD
Class Time(s)
Tuesday, 3:30 - 6:20pm
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Theodore Bailey
Contact Name
Theodore Bailey
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Prerequisite

None

Description
Explores how infectious diseases pose a number of distinctive ethical, legal, and human rights issues. Reviews international human rights, US constitutional and legal principles, and ethical theories of relevance to evaluating medical, public health, and social responses to infectious diseases. Examines features of infectious diseases that raise distinctive normative issues including modes of transmission, drug-resistance, potential for natural and vaccine-induced immunity, and possibility of global eradication for some diseases. Discusses issues including pandemic preparedness and response, duties to care for people with infectious diseases, uses of liberty-limiting and privacy infringing control measures, criminalization, discrimination and stigma, antibiotic stewardship, vaccine mandates and refusal, duties to avoid transmitting infectious diseases, and global eradication of infectious diseases.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Analyze the ways that infectious disease control measures pose ethically and legally significant trade-offs between public health and individual autonomy, liberty, privacy, and well-being interests
  2. Identify and apply relevant ethical norms to determine morally justified trade-offs between public health and individual autonomy, liberty, privacy, and well-being in the use of infectious disease control measures
  3. Apply International Human Rights and U.S. constitutional and legal norms to evaluate uses of liberty-limiting and privacy infringing infectious disease control measures
  4. Articulate the ethical, legal, and human rights duties that nations, international organizations, health-care providers, and individuals have to act in ways that avert or ameliorate infectious diseases in various settings
  5. Assess the competing ethical and legal duties a health care provider may face in providing care to an individual with an infectious disease
  6. Assess the ethical arguments that may be offered for and against undertaking global eradication or regional elimination of infectious diseases as opposed to more limited efforts at achieving sustained control
  7. Identify ethically salient commonalities and differences between infectious disease control and infectious disease clinical research
Enrollment Restriction
Enrollment priority given to MBE students
Instructor Consent
Consent required for some students
Consent Note
Consent required for undergraduate students
Consent Contact
tbaile15@jhu.edu
Special Comments

Course meets in Deering Hall; LLC Room