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Postgraduate UND-MEDI6006-2022

Contemporary Issues in Bioethics

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Duration

13 weeks

Study method

100% Online

Available loans

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Assessments

100% online

Prior study

Not required

Start dates

25 Jul 2022

The University of Notre Dame Australia is committed to delivering an excellent student experience, alongside a high standard of teaching, research, and training. As a leader in ethical education, Notre Dame aims to develop students’ critical reasoning and their ability to make ethical decisions—crucial skills to progressing their careers and leading purposeful lives. At Notre Dame, students navigate their future with an ethical education online.

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2022

Subject details

What you'll learn

At the completion of this course you should be able to:

1. Demonstrate knowledge of current complex bioethical controversies.

2. Articulate sophisticated understanding of arguments for and against certain positions concerning bioethical controversies.

3. Communicate effectively, with mastery of analysis, various approaches taken when dealing with bioethical controversies.

4. Apply knowledge and understanding to complex contemporary practical situations in written and oral form

Topics covered

- Bioethics in the contemporary context; Just allocation of resources; Ethical issues regarding human organ transplantation; Ethical issues at the end and beginning of life; Ethical issues in research on early human life and development of novel therapies; Ethical issues in decision making in the COVID19 Pandemic; Ethical Issues regarding human genital surgery; Ethical obligations to our planet; Social Justice and Catholic social teaching; Research Ethics and the pharmaceutical industry; Informed consent; Transhumanism and use of artifical intelligence in medicine.

Entry requirements

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Description

Contemporary Issues in Bioethics addresses selected ethical issues relevant to health care and clinical research. Topics to be covered will include: ethical issues at the beginning and at the end of life; ethical issues in contemporary health care practice, including informed consent; conscientious objection; the just allocation of health care resources; organ transplantation; health and climate change; circumcision and female genital mutilation. The course also includes research ethics and the pharmaceutical industry; ethical issues involved with genetic technologies; the ethics of public health interventions; and the role of artificial intelligence in health care.

Assessments

Three summative assessment components comprising 1. Engagement in tutorial discussions 2. Written disputation and 3. 0ral presentation of disputation

Oral presentation of disputation . (20%%)
Engagement in tutorial discussions (40%%)
Written disputation (1500 words) (40%%)

Textbooks

Current study term: 24 Jul 22 to 28 Oct 22

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