About this Course
Postgraduate Laws programme:
Master of Laws (LLM), Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate
Course outline
| Medical law and ethics |
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| Section A: Basic concepts in medical law |
| · Bioethics |
| · Consent |
| · Capacity |
| · Confidentiality |
| Section B: Access to treatment and malpractice litigation |
| · Resource allocation |
| · Malpractice litigation |
| · Product liability and the regulation of medicines |
| · Liability for occurrences before birth |
| Section C: Legal and ethical issues in medical practice |
| · Mental health law |
| · Clinical research |
| · Organ transplantation |
| · End of life decisions |
| Section D: Legal and ethical issues in reproduction |
| · Abortion |
| · Embryo and stem cell research |
| · Assisted conception |
| · Surrogacy. |
| Sequence: Section A first, Section D last. |
| Textbook: Emily Jackson, Medical Law: Text, Cases and Materials (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), ISBN: 9781859414385 |