FRAN 310 - Health Care in the Franciscan Tradition

3 IUs

This course is an investigation into how the Franciscan vision of health and illness can affect contemporary understandings of health care, health care institutions, and health care ethics.

The Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, produced by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, is used as a resource for the moral decision-making process in a health-care context. Bioethical and organizational ethics are approached from a particularly Franciscan point of view.