VCM 392 - Vet Med & Society: Ethics, Economics & Egos
(Elective)
First Year - Second Semester
N.M. Bailey (1988)
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1. Introduction.
2. Plato - Flickering shadows, sunlight, and the "good".
3. Aristotle - The practical science of virtue.
4. Aristotle - Science, knowledge, and politics (strange bedfellows).
5. Science, medicine, and society - 19th century.
6. Medicine, science, and society - 20th century.
7. The individual and society - Who am I? and How did I become me?
8. The "good", the bad, & the ugly - How did we get from the Greeks to the Reich & What does this have to do with medicine?
9. Economic issues in medicine - something happened on the way to Plato's "ideal Forms".
10. More economics in medicine - the buck stops here!
11. Current ethical issues in veterinary medicine: basic sciences (true virtue lies in the ability to apply prior readings and discussion to these issues).
12. More ethical knots (nots?) in veterinary medicine : clinical perspectives.
13. Veterinary medicine futures - ethics, pork bellies, and the DVM.