PUBSRV 1305 - HEALTH, LAW AND ETHICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course addresses legal and ethical issues encountered by health care practitioners as well as those working in health care management and public health. Strong emphasis is placed on legal and ethical issues that occur within the realm of direct patient care. Topics include, but are not limited to: advance directives, decision making capacity, informed consent, organ donation, end of life decision making, surrogate decision making, and confidentiality. Students will be able to articulate common health care ethics principles, theories, methodology, laws, and concepts and use the same to analyze health care ethics cases. Students will also develop concrete logical arguments in support of a chosen ethical stance.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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