HLAD 4335 - Health Care Ethics

3 hrs

Ethical challenges facing today’s technologically rich health care environment. Tools for understanding and effectively dealing with bioethical encounters. Topics include gametes, embryos, surrogacy, abortion, and new reproductive technology, human cloning, competency, self-determination, autonomy, access; the ethical considerations of physician assisted death, withdrawn fl uids and nutrition management, family characteristics, ethical elements of managed care, emergency care, rationing decisions, and an examination of future bioethical challenges.