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.

DRAFT electronic version updated at 1:45 p.m. January 30, 2003

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