Health Care Ethics

Instructor:
Clayton J Houdeshell
305
Credits:
3.0
002
Building:
Don and Cathy Jacobs Science Building
Room:
Rm.213
Semester:
Spring 2023
Start Date:
End Date:
Name:
Health Care Ethics
Class Type:
LEC
11:00 am
11:50 am
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