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.
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.