CEBI 0930 - Where Doctors and Lawyers Collide: The Greatest Hits of Bioethics and the Law

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Brown University

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With the proposed U.S. healthcare reforms making front-page news each day, it is becoming difficult to think about medicine without understanding the involvement of law. This course will bring students on a tour of some of the most influential ways that the law has intervened to change medical practice and research. Course meetings will examine topics such as the overall structure of the healthcare system, the duty to treat patients, informed consent to treatment, medical malpractice law, the right to refuse medical treatment, end-of-life care, physician-assisted suicide, organ donation, abortion, stem cell research, patented drugs, laws governing medical research, and public health measures such as vaccines and quarantines.

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Institution Website:

www.brown.edu

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(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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