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Aug 31, 2025
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Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog
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HMC 331 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Health Care
Introduction to ethics, its application to the health care profession, and to some of the major ethical and legal doctrines that affect health care professionals. The doctrines are discussed by addressing specific problem situations. Some of the topics are the right to refuse medical, mental, and social care; the right to life and its limits (e.g., suicide, euthanasia, abortion); the right to receive care; and access to and evaluation of health care delivery. Since the goal of the course is to sensitize professionals to legal and ethical issues like those they will be called upon to resolve, students are expected to take part in class discussions and do readings.
3 credits
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