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PHL 205 - Medical Ethics and Law


Credits: 3
3 Lecture Hours

Description
This course is an ethics seminar. Basic ethical concepts are introduced followed by problems in medical care such as professional responsibility and patient relationships. Ethical and legal issues are examined and laws having a bearing upon medical care are discussed.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will:

  1. Demonstrate a general framework in philosophy from which to probe the conflicting demands and choices facing society in general and medical practice in particular.
  2. Develop diverse perspectives upon the presuppositions, values, and premises brought into question by the technical and human possibility of medicine.
Listed Topics
  1. Ethics and medicine relative to concepts of life
  2. Ethics and medicine relative to death and dying
  3. Moral issues concerning suffering
  4. Medicine, the law, and behavior control
  5. Experiments on human beings: medicine, ethics, and the law
  6. Patient relationships
  7. Health care delivery
  8. Health professions, caregivers, neglect and malpractice
  9. Genetic control and its ethical issues
  10. Alternative views and concerns relative to abortion
  11. Science, technologies, and human dignity
  12. The issues around the natural versus the artificial
Reference Materials
Library – and basic texts
Approved By: Lauth, Laurence Date Approved: 01/17/1983


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