Health Care Ethics

Instructor:
Rayne Craig
305
Credits:
3.0
002
Building:
Funkhouser Building
Room:
Rm.B9
Semester:
Fall 2022
Start Date:
End Date:
Name:
Health Care Ethics
Class Type:
LEC
12:00 pm
12:50 pm
Days:
MWF

A consideration of the ethical issues and difficult choices generated or made acute by advances in biology, technology, and medicine. Typical issues include: informed consent, healer-patient relationships, truth telling, confidentiality, problem of birth defects, abortion, placebos and health, allocation of scarce medical resources, genetic research and experimentation, cost containment in health care, accountability of health care professionals, care of the dying, and death.

A consideration of the ethical issues and difficult choices generated or made acute by advances in biology, technology, and medicine. Typical issues include: informed consent, healer-patient relationships, truth telling, confidentiality, problem of birth defects, abortion, placebos and health, allocation of scarce medical resources, genetic research and experimentation, cost containment in health care, accountability of health care professionals, care of the dying, and death.

PHI