Law and Medical Ethics

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Elective Course Enrollment Limit: 12 Course Requirement: paper Fulfills Current Concentration Elective: Business Law- Health Care Law Track, General Practice- Family Law Track, Government and Public Interest- Health Law Track, Government and Public Interest- Mission and Moral Life Track This course introduces law students to the constellation of issues in medical ethics arising from life-support systems and other medical interventions and innovations, along with the law?s response and ongoing development. Among the topics covered are institutional mechanisms such as ethics committees and research review boards, decision-making capacity, informed consent, right to choose (and to refuse) medical treatment, end-of-life care, physician aid in dying, advance directives, family and proxy decision making, medical futility, pediatric care, confidentiality and privacy, human subject experimentation and research ethics, assisted reproduction, genetic screening, testing, and engineering, human cloning, and transplantation.