This unit introduces students to the fundamental moral principles, ethical issues in health care and how these are reflected in legislation. In parallel the unit will focus on the existing legislative framework for healthcare and emerging policies in this area.
The unit explores the underlying principles and nature of moral responsibility (ethics), analyse and review notions of autonomy, duty, justice, truth, rights and equality and last but not least, it seeks to effectively manage the relationship between the personal and professional judgments.
A broad framework for ethical decision making will be critically evaluated. With reference to the student’s own professional field, this module aims to facilitate a rigorously developed, critical and sophisticated understanding of the ways in which a positive approach to equality and inclusiveness can utilise to improve access to and experience of services and care.
In this fascinating module, questions such as these will be explore and critically evaluate the arguments surrounding organ transplantation, euthanasia and the right to die