HCE 680 - Advanced Health Care Law

Institution:

Duquesne University

Subject:

HCE - Health Care Ethics

Description:

This course explores in-depth the intriguing, developing issues in health law and policy, focusing special attention on the issues that impact the human body and that challenge individual decision making. An underlying theme of the course examines the basic areas of law (property, tort, and contract law) as frameworks for analyzing these evolving issues. Specific topics for exploration include: property law and the human body, sterilization and reproductive controls, mental health and disability, pledges of confidentiality and competing interests, adolescent health care, relationship of contract and tort law to professional responsibility, health policy for resource allocation, aging and elder law, perspectives and regulations for the care of the dying, protections for the human body pre- and post-mortem, and research ethics and regulation of non-therapeutic research using human subjects. The course aims to provide students with a foundation for understanding how and why law is integral to biomedical ethics and health policy, the advisability and appropriateness of legislation (federal and state), precise issues requiring policy development and multi-disciplinary discourse to inform policy development, and issues at the cusp of development.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.duq.edu

Phone Number:

(412) 396-6000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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