{"id":965,"date":"2018-08-06T13:52:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T13:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uol-law-tutors.com\/?page_id=965"},"modified":"2025-10-01T21:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:02:09","slug":"medical-law-ethics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uol-law-tutors.com\/index.php\/medical-law-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Law &#038; Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Email<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">info @ uol-law-tutors.com <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">For<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> Cl<\/strong>ass Times And\/Or One-On-One Lessons.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Medical Law and Ethics is a fascinating area to study dealing with some of the most contested and controversial issues of our time; assisted dying, abortion, and embryo research to name three. New technologies such as stem cell research, face transplants and pre-implantation genetic testing have attracted considerable media and public interest.<\/p>\n<p>To study medical law at this level, it is essential to also consider the ethical issues which under pin questions about how we should regulate controversial medical practices.<\/p>\n<p>This course requires students to use sophisticated analytical skills in evaluating complex legal and ethical dilemmas and to challenge their own and others\u2019 received wisdom while becoming aware of the importance of providing defensible reasons for their views.<\/p>\n<h3>Module A:\u00a0Basic concepts in medical law<\/h3>\n<p><strong>LWM56A<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bioethics<\/li>\n<li>Consent<\/li>\n<li>Capacity<\/li>\n<li>Confidentiality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Module B:\u00a0Access to treatment and malpractice litigation<\/h3>\n<p><strong>LWM56B<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Resource allocation<\/li>\n<li>Medical malpractice<\/li>\n<li>Product liability and the regulation of medicines<\/li>\n<li>Liability for occurrences before birth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Module C:\u00a0Legal and ethical issues in medical practice<\/h3>\n<p><strong>LWM56C<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mental health law<\/li>\n<li>Clinical research<\/li>\n<li>Organ transplantation<\/li>\n<li>End of life decisions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Module D:\u00a0Legal and ethical issues in reproduction<\/h3>\n<p><strong>LWM56D<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Abortion<\/li>\n<li>Embryo and stem cell research<\/li>\n<li>Assisted conception<\/li>\n<li>Surrogacy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Assessment<\/h3>\n<p>Each module will be assessed by a 45-minute unseen written examination.<\/p>\n<h3>Sequence<\/h3>\n<p>The modules must be completed in order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Email info @ uol-law-tutors.com For Class Times And\/Or One-On-One Lessons. Medical Law and Ethics is a fascinating area to study dealing with some of the most contested and controversial issues of our time; assisted dying, abortion, and embryo research to name three. New technologies such as stem cell research, face transplants and pre-implantation genetic testing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-965","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uol-law-tutors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uol-law-tutors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uol-law-tutors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uol-law-tutors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uol-law-tutors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uol-law-tutors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uol-law-tutors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}