Short Course Description
Course description and learning objectives:
The course will introduce participants to health as a social justice issue, emphasizing the ethical obligations of social and health professionals toward patients. We will discuss the balance between drug development and the promotion of social change in preventing excess morbidity.
Manifestations of racism and paternalism, economic disparities between and within nations, knowledge gaps and the role of global corporations, the climate crisis, and epidemics are challenging everything we thought we knew about health. By focusing on case studies and using diverse examples, some of which will be presented by activists and health professionals, we will examine how the meeting point between political policies, social justice, human rights, and ethics can serve as a fertile space for advancing health equality.
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