Home - ACU (The Australian Catholic University)

Site Navigation

PHIL602 Problems in the Ethics of Health Care

20 cp
Prerequisites
Nil
Teaching Organisation A variety of modes such as lectures, tutorials, seminars, and directed reading.

This unit examines debates about how ethical considerations should enter into health care practice. It considers a range of contemporary health issues and students will have the opportunity to focus on a particular area of interest. The unit considers such questions as beginning-of-life decisions, end-of-life decisions, critical care, reproductive medicine, psychiatric medicine, care of people with infectious diseases, gerontology, organ transplantation, gene therapy.

Sub-site navigation