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LLM Healthcare Ethics and Law

The LLM in Healthcare Ethics and Law provides high-quality education in healthcare ethics and healthcare law. There is an emphasis on the application of bioethical and legal theory to real-world scenarios, catering to the practical needs of healthcare and legal professionals and those in related fields.

You will study a wide variety of ethical and legal subjects including:

autonomy;
consent;
refusal of treatment;
confidentiality;
the moral status of the foetus;
resource allocation;
genetic testing;
HIV testing;
medical malpractice;
clinical negligence;
organ and tissue transplantation;
fertility treatment;
genetic manipulation;
research ethics;
stem cell research;
euthanasia.
This course requires the study of both ethics and law, but with a bias towards law in the taught units. On the distance learning course, all options taken must be law-based. On the campus-based course, the majority of options should be law-based.