PHILOS 173Philosophy of Medicine
Philosophy · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Focus on questions like what is health, what is well-being, what is mental disorder, and what is disability. Consideration of naturalistic, normative, and social constructivist types of answers, and error theories. Consideration of roles that fact, value, statistical norms, normal variation, normal function, and harm might have in these concepts. Study of consequences of different accounts of these concepts for people with minority bodies, minds, and sexualities, and for decisions about cure, enhancement, and reproduction.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.