Bioethics and the Law

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This course will teach the foundations of bioethics law, sources of law, and basic legal research skills. Legal grounding for the principle of autonomy will be studied as it applies to informed consent and end-of-life situations. Other legal issues to be addressed include decisions made for others, physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, the body as commodity, reproduction and birth, allocation of medical resources, whistleblower and Good Samaritan cases, and medical malpractice. This course will be taught by an attorney knowledgeable about health care law.