Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Law
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Tutorial
Module Offerings
6107LAWCL-JAN-MTP
Aims
To provide students with a conceptual, ethical and legal framework for the analysis of important issues in Medicine and Biotechnology
Learning Outcomes
1.
Identify the key legal and ethical issues in contemporary medicine and
Biotechnology.
2.
Demonstrate an awareness of the impact of European Convention jurisprudence
on Medical law and Ethics.
3.
Demonstrate the impact on Medical Law of other disciplines such as politics,
theology, economics, anthropology and ethics.
4.
Demonstrate a well-developed ability to use a wide range of standard and legal
and other electronic sources of information.
5.
Demonstrate the ability to produce an overview of the relevant doctrinal and
policy issues.
6.
Demonstrate the ability to evaluate the arguments of jurists and ethicists in the light of established statute law and judicial decisions.
7.
Produce substantial answers to examination questions by displaying a sufficient
and relevant understanding of the issues and the critiques.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:• Philosophical issues in medicine
• Consent to treatment
• Confidentiality
• Transplants and donations of human organs and human tissue
• Medically assisted reproduction
• Abortion
• Sterilisation of the mentally incapacitated
• The ending of life
• Separating conjoined twins: the ethical considerations
• Morality, biotechnology and biomedical human research
Module Overview:
To provide students with a conceptual, ethical and legal framework for the analysis of important issues in Medicine and Biotechnology This Module seeks critically to review and analyse the application of universal ethical, legal and philosophical principles upon which healthcare decisions are made.
To provide students with a conceptual, ethical and legal framework for the analysis of important issues in Medicine and Biotechnology This Module seeks critically to review and analyse the application of universal ethical, legal and philosophical principles upon which healthcare decisions are made.
Additional Information:This Module seeks critically to review and analyse the application of universal ethical, legal and philosophical principles upon which healthcare decisions are made.
Assessments
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