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.