Subjects 2009
Bioethics from an International Perspective 730892
- Credited Courses: Graduate Diploma in Health and Medical Law 343; Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies L08; Graduate Diploma in Transnational Law 333; Master of Health and Medical Law 507; Master of Laws (LLM) 502; Master of Laws (LLM) 502; Master of Legal Systems 890
Objectives
A student who has successfully completed this subject should:
- Understand the nature of ethical argumentation
- Identify ethical issues and construct arguments relevant to their practical resolution
- Be able to engage in ethical debate and evaluate arguments
- Understand basic ethical theories and concepts
- Understand the difference between ethics and law in medical matters
- Understand how ethical principles are relevant to law
- Understand the modes of moral reasoning that are used in health care ethics, health care policy and in different parts of the world, including Australia
- Be able to apply the foregoing tools to practical clinical problems and to problems of health law.
Syllabus
Principal topics will include:
- The current revolution in bioethical reasoning and methods in bioethics
- Making good medical-moral judgments for self and others
- Abortion
- Euthanasia
- Regulation of research, including:
- Stem cell research and cloning
- Transgenesis and human–non-human chimeras
- Sale of biological material and body parts
- Regulation of doping in sport
- Reproductive cloning
- Human enhancement
- Genetic selection
- Coercion in reproduction.
