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.
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

Centralised Exam
Report