Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Law

Learning Methods

Lecture

Workshop

Module Offerings

6307LAWCL-JAN-MTP

Aims

To provide students with knowledge and a critical understanding of the structure, sources and content of the law relating to medicine in England and Wales, and the fundamental legal and ethical doctrines and principles which underpin it.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Identify and critically analyse the key legal and ethical issues in a very wide range of contemporary medical issues.
2.
Identify the impact of doctrinal, theological, policy and ethical issues upon medical law.
3.
Construct a critical argument supported by relevant and authoritative sources.
4.
Select key research issues and to identify relevant primary and secondary sources of information.

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 Mental Health Negligence and medical malpractice The right to health in international law and human rights. Medically assisted reproduction
Module Overview:
To provide students with knowledge and a critical understanding of the structure, sources and content of the law relating to medicine in England and Wales, and the fundamental legal and ethical doctrines and principles which underpin it. 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

Essay