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This module will examine the legal regulation of medical practice and the medical profession.

Medical ethics; Clinical Negligence; mental capacity and consent to medical treatment; patient confidentiality; legal regulation of abortion and surrogacy; cloning and embryo research; organ transplantation; legal and ethical issues concerning conception, abortion, birth, and death.

A student passing this module should be able to:

1. demonstrate comprehensive and accurate knowledge and understanding of those areas of medical law and ethics identified in the indicative syllabus above and form a critical judgement on areas of controversy within the topics studied;

2. demonstrate understanding of the social, political and economic context in which Medical Law operates, and of the policy reasons for changes in medical law;

3. demonstrate understanding of the different views on the role of medical law and its scope.

4. analyse complex problems in medical law, apply the legal principles studied to these problems, evaluate competing arguments and present well-supported conclusions both orally and in writing;

5. access, interpret and use relevant primary and secondary sources of medical law, with minimal staff guidance; critically analyse, interpret, evaluate and synthesise information from a variety of sources;

6. identify sources for research and further develop a strategy for research using standard and electronic research tools.

The Library Catalogue contains full details of the current reading list for this module. Further details may also be found in the Module Guide.