LAW-30088 - Module Specification School of Law Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 25 April 2024
LAW-30088 - Health Care Law
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Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25
Available as a Free Standing Elective
Co-requisites
None
Prerequisites
None
Barred Combinations
None
Description for 2024/25
This module explores the way in which law, ethics and policy interrelate in the area of health care practice. It builds on earlier understanding acquired in the core modules of Tort and Criminal Law, plus drawing on themes encountered in Family Law, Mental Health Law and Law and Ethics. The course will seek to develop analytical understanding of health care law and encourage critical perspectives on the substantive areas covered. The module is particularly attractive to those with an interest in the interaction between ethics and law and the governance of the powerful profession of medicine.
To explore the interrelationship of law, ethics, and policy in a contested and rapidly expanding area of law.
Intended Learning Outcomes
identify, critique, and contextualise the basic legal rules applying to health care law: 1devise and construct a critical analysis of the way in which the law seeks to govern the personal relationship between doctor and patient: 1identify and evaluate the need in the sector for a balance between the demands of the individual and of the state and how the law seeks to regulate that: 1explore and evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the field of health care law: 1
Study hours
10 x 2 hour lecture/seminar sessions = 20 hoursseminar preparation = 54 hoursessay preparation/background reading = 76 hours
School Rules
None
Description of Module Assessment