Ethical issues in patient care
Justin Oakley
12 points
* 2 hours per week
* First semester
* Clayton
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Prerequisite: HBM5101 or equivalent
Objectives This subject has been designed to enable students to bring a rigorous framework of principles of health care ethics to the analysis and evaluation of certain ethical issues in patient care. It will thereby enable students to think critically about key concepts involved in those principles.
Synopsis This subject aims to develop students' critical and analytical understanding of certain key ethical issues in patient care. The subject focuses initially on four main ethical principles commonly appealed to in this context: autonomy, privacy, beneficence and justice. These principles and the relations and conflicts between them will be examined in terms of a variety of broad ethical issues which arise in patient care, such as paternalism, confidentiality, informed consent IVF, surrogacy, resource allocation, and euthanasia. There will also be some discussion of competing models of health professional-patient relationships, and issues of professional autonomy.
Assessment Essay (2000 words): 20%
* Essay (3000 words): 40%
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Take-home exam (3000 words): 40%
Prescribed texts
Beauchamp T L and Childress J F Principles of biomedical ethics 4th edn, OUP, 1994
Recommended texts
Gorovitz S and others (eds) Moral problems in medicine Prentice-Hall, 1983
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