Overview
Description
Analysis of selected issues, combining scientific/medical and case law perspective. Topics include medical malpractice, informed consent, parents’ rights, birth, AIDS, drug addiction.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- critically describe current health law trends and medical advances that are being addressed by state and federal courts.
- critically describe the evolving structure of the health care enterprise in the United States and its effect on access and delivery of health care.
- critically describe the current trend toward increased federal control over health care in the United States.
- critically describe life, death and the legal issues that are involved at both the beginning and the end of life.
- write judicial decisions involving health care disputes that are consistent with both state and federal law.
- summarize a specific area of health law in a short paper.