Law
Contemporary Issues in Healthcare Law
Module code: M6024
Level 6
15 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Lecture, Seminar
Assessment modes: Essay
On this module, you’ll explore a range of contemporary issues in healthcare law, focusing on how the law addresses key ethical and legal challenges. Topics vary, depending on current developments, but could include:
- parliament and the courts in healthcare regulation
- medically assisted reproduction and surrogacy
- the regulation of abortion and arguments for decriminalisation
- disputes over the medical treatment of children
- the use of human material
- legal regulation of assisted suicide
- the legality of cosmetic surgery
- provision of innovative treatments
- patient choice and autonomy
- effectiveness of professional self-regulation.
This module examines these issues in the context of their ethical, legal, and social implications.
Module learning outcomes
- Systematically explain key legal rules and principles of contemporary issues in the field of healthcare law
- Systematically explain the contemporary debates about topical issues in healthcare law
- Evaluate critically contemporary issues of healthcare law, where appropriate identifying where reform is necessary and what form that may take
- Demonstrate the ability to initiate and undertake independent research on contemporary issues of healthcare law