Social Ethics in Medical Education

Wayne X Shandera, MD is an internist and assistant professor with Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He is trained in infectious diseases and treats in particular indigent HIV-infected patients. For ten years, he has taught a course on Human Rights and Medicine with contributor and philosopher Laurence McCullough from the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy. He graduated from Rice University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, completed a medical residency at Stanford University Hospitals, worked as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer with the Centers of Disease Control on the early cases of AIDS, and did a clinical fellowship at Harvard University with the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has published papers on a variety of infectious diseases and regularly participates in writing and updating the Viral Disease chapter of the medical textbook Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment. He was awarded a Public Health Service commendation for early investigation of AIDS, and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists presented him with a certificate of appreciation at their 2006 meeting. He regularly participates in ethical discussion with the European Society for the Philosophy of Medicine and Health. He is originally from San Antonio, Texas.

Preface; Homelessness & Medical Education: Examining the Ethical & Practical Considerations of Serving the Most in Need; Immigration & Health; AIDS & Discrimination; What Should Medical Students Know about the Global Sex Trade?; Human Rights: A Brief Historical & Conceptual Account; Medical Ethics, Human Rights, & Torture; A New Medical Curriculum for the Nuclear Age.