Law and Medicine

Description

This course deals with legal issues relating to the practice of medicine. The course will begin with an account of the New Zealand health care system and the legal framework of health care. The second part of the course addresses issues in medical treatment, including topics from consent; organ transplantation; beginning of life issues; and end of life issues. The third part of the course considers the impact of technology on medicine, and considers legal issues relating to these new technologies, including selected topics from cloning and other forms of assisted reproductive technologies; surrogacy; posthumous conception; pre-implantation genetic diagnosis; and genetic factors in crime.