Course Description

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.

Official electronic version updated on November 10, 2000

M. Watson, Editor