Unit name | C6 Medicine, Law and Ethics |
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Unit code | MEDIM3006 |
Credit points | 15 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
Unit director | Professor. Forbes |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Health Sciences Faculty Office |
Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
This module will be run over two and a half days of seminars with a follow up day approximately six months later. Reading and essay work will cover the following issues: (i) care and comfort, (ii) consent and communication, (iii) life and death, (iv) autonomy, power and responsibility, (v) health needs and entitlements and (vi) rationing resources.
Aims:
The aim of this module is to encourage critical reflection on the ethical dilemmas that arise in the practice of palliative care, to place these in the context of good communication with the patient and family and to consider practical responses to these dilemmas with reference to philosophy and the law.
After this module students will be able to:
Two and a half study days
Lectures Tutorials Discussion groups around students’ case histories/scenarios
Formative feedback during discussion groups
Reflective writing around critical incidents (in combination with Communication Skills)
Jeffrey D. There is nothing more I can do. An introduction to ethics in palliative care. Penzance: Patten Press, 1993.
Fisher F. Medical Ethics Today: its practice and philosophy. London: BMA publications, 1993
Beecham TL, Childress F. Principles of biomedical ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994