530 Health Care Ethics & the Law (Nelson)

LAW530

Health Care Ethics & the Law

(Nelson)

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Instructor(s): Professor Erin Nelson

Course credit: 3

Method of presentation: Seminar

METHOD OF EVALUATION

The primary method of evaluation is a paper worth 75% of the grade. The other 25% of the grade will be based on class participation.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

In this course, students will develop an understanding of health law and health care ethics, and of the relationship – and tensions – between law and ethics in the health care context. Topics covered will include allocation of health care resources, physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, organ donation, assisted reproductive technologies, medical tourism and research involving human subjects. Students’ attention will be directed to the tension between autonomy and paternalism that informs many of the issues that we will consider throughout the course.

SPECIAL COMMENTS

Description updated 2019-20. Please contact the instructor for any specific questions you may have related to this particular course section.

REQUIRED TEXTS (IF ANY):

Materials for this course will be made available on the course TWEN site.