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Frequently Asked Questions
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What is the Center for Bioethics & Clinical Leadership? |
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The Center for Bioethics and Clinical Leadership of
Union Graduate College is the coordinating body for a series of interrelated programs involving education and research in bioethics, healthcare policy, and healthcare management. |
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What programs are offered through the Center for Bioethics & Clinical Leadership? |
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The Center offers many different health care related degree programs.
They are broken down into four programs:
- The Masters in Bioethics
- The Certificate in Bioethics
- 8-year Leadership in Medicine Program
- Master of Science Clinical Leadership in Health Management Program
For more information on any of the programs please go to the first page of the Center website and click on the program of interest. |
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What is Bioethics? |
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Bioethics is sometimes used interchangeably with "medical ethics" and "biomedical ethics"; however, it is frequently used to indicate a new form of ethics that emerged in the 1970s as a critique of traditional medical ethics. Around this period traditional medical ethics came to be seen as limited in a variety of ways. It dealt with ethical issues in only one of the health professions, medicine (doctoring), and was thus inadequate to provide ethical guidance for the teams of allied health professionals-the administrators, nurses and therapists-who increasing had become pivotal to medical decision-making in intensive care units and other technology driven areas of hospitals. The scope of traditional medical ethics also failed to encompass biomedical scientists, even as research, scandals jeopardized the moral integrity of the research enterprise, threatening to alienate public support and public funds. Finally, and most importantly given the spirit of the times as the professional ethics of doctors, traditional medical ethics accorded no legitimate place for the voices of other health professionals, or patients, or the public, or research subjects and it certainly did not accommodate the views of the lawyers, philosophers, and theologians who were about to join with administrators and clinicians to form the new multidisciplinary field of bioethics. |
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How can I find out more about Bioethics? |
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Bioethics is an ever-changing area of study and it is easy to find information and stay current using the internet. There are many very useful sites available to everyone. We suggest:
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