PY217
 Medical Ethics
 0.5
A study of some of the fundamental social and ethical issues
brought about by the biomedical revolution: behaviour control (by
drugs, psychosurgery, and psychotherapy); experimentation;
informed consent; genetic screening and genetic control;
transplantation; truth-telling; death and dying; new concepts of
health and illness; allocation of scarce medical resources.  
Prerequisite: Registration status: senior student.