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APG5729
Faculty of Arts
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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL
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| Level | Postgraduate |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
| Organisational Unit | Centre for Human Bioethics |
| Offered | City (Melbourne) First semester 2013 (Day) Clayton First semester 2013 (Off-campus) |
| Coordinator(s) | Dr Tatjana Visak |
Notes
Previously coded CHB5203
Synopsis
This unit focuses initially on three ethical principles used to justify decisions in patient care: autonomy, beneficence, and justice. These principles are then applied to a variety of ethical issues in health care practice, such as the allocation of health care resources, the justifiability of paternalistic interventions, breaches of confidentiality, assisted reproductive technologies, surrogate motherhood, and euthanasia. The role of health professionals is also considered, in relation to issues in family care giving, and conscientious refusals to treat patients.
Outcomes
On successful completion of APG5729, students should have acquired the skills to
- bring a rigorous framework of principles of health care ethics to the analysis and evaluation of certain ethical issues in patient care
- think critically about the key concepts involved in those principles
- make informed judgements about the ethics of certain ways of acting in ethically sensitive areas of patient care, and be able to defend those judgements on the basis of argument.
Assessment
Written work: 60% (5000 words)
Take home exam: 40%
Chief examiner(s)
Contact hours
one 2.5 hour seminar per week
Prerequisites
APG5393 or equivalent
Prohibitions
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