Fall 2005 Course Schedule

Health Law: Bioethics (LAW-719-003)
Forster Gertner

Meets: 06:00 PM - 08:40 PM (W) - Room 501

Enrolled: 15 / Limit: 22

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Description

This class will examine how the legal policy systems reconcile competing values and interests in controversies surrounding the practice of medicine. Case law, legislation, advisory policies, and institutional policies will be examined, as well as selected commentary from the legal, medical, and philosophical perspectives. Substantive topics may include: the definition of death, the right to refuse treatment, medical decisions regarding treatment for incompetent patients (including children), physician assisted suicide, procreative liberty, organ transplantation, research involving human subjects, and selected issues raised by genetics and human cloning. Grades will be based on class participation (20%), and a final take-home exam (80%).

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First Class Readings

Please pick up your packet from the copy center. Then read:

Class #1—Introduction and History/Role of Law
1) PK—Avraham Steinberg, The Foundations and the Development of Modern Medical Ethics, 12 J. ASSISTED REPRODUCTION & GENETICS 473 (1995).
2) PK—Kenneth DeVille, ‘What Does the Law Say?’ Law, Ethics, and Medical Decision Making, 160(5) WESTERN J. MED. 478-80 (1994).
3) PK—Carl Schneider, Bioethics in the Language of the Law, 24(4) HASTINGS CENTER REP. 16-22 (1994).
4) PK--Edmund Pellegrino, The Metamorphosis of Medical Ethics, 269(9) JAMA 1158-1162 (1993).
5) PK—Commentators, Ignore the Law, 30(4) HASTINGS CENTER REPORT 22-23 (2000).
6) PK--Carl Schneider, The Best-Laid Plans, 30(4) HASTINGS CENTER REPORT 24-25 (2000).

Syllabus

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