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 International Bioethics Education Program
Instructor: Cynthia Griggins, Ph.D.
This 3-credit course will focus on the ethical issues involved in mental health care, especially since the deinstitutionalization of our mental health system in the 1970s, and will contrast the management of these issues in the US and European systems. After reviewing the history of psychiatric care in the US and Europe, issues such as the diagnosis of mental illness, illness and responsibility, and mental patients’ rights to refuse or receive treatment will be explored. Teaching will include guided field experiences in clinics and hospitals and a museum of psychiatry, and regular discussion sessions with the course faculty. Students will be expected to become familiar with the literature on concepts in mental health ethics and policies relevant to course topics in both countries. This course is relevant for students of psychology, social work, law, medicine, and ethics. The course is open to undergraduate and graduate students.
March 2010 courses
March 2010 courses take place March 8-12, trip March 5-14.
- BETH 315/415: French Perspectives on Controversies at the Beginning and End of Life-Paris, France
- BETH 315/415: Public Health Ethics: Focus on the Netherlands
- BETH 315/415: Ethical Issues in Public Health and Genetics(Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- BETH 315/415: International Women's Health Issues: Focus on Netherlands
- BETH 315/415: Mental Health Ethics--"Stigma, Deinstitutionalization, and the Severely Mentally Ill: European and American Experiences"
- BETH 315/415: European Perspectives on Bioethics--Salamanca, Spain
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