Key facts
UNE unit code: LAW342
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- Not offered in 2025
- Armidale Campus
- Yes
- No
- No
- 6
Unit information
This unit equips you with a thorough introduction to several key legal and ethical issues impacting on the delivery of health care.
You will examine a range of topics including the relationship between bioethics and law, as well as apply ethical and legal principles to issues including basic legal principles impacting on health care and medicine, the beginning of life (including assisted reproductive technology and abortion) and the end of life (including end of life decision making and euthanasia).
Throughout, you will build transferable critical thinking, legal reasoning and analytical skills.
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There are no intensive schools required for this unit.
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Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
- demonstrate a broad and coherent understanding of the nature and scope of the law and the role of the courts and tribunals in dealing with matters that relate to the medico-legal field;
- use initiative and judgement to critically analyse, synthesise, and consolidate the legislation and case law relevant to the practice of medicine in communicating well-reasoned and persuasive legal arguments and solutions to complex medico-legal issues;
- critically evaluate the ethical theories and bio ethical principles that provide guidance for decision-making in medical practice; and
- use cognitive and creative skills to exercise critical thinking and judgement in comparing and evaluating the judicial decisions of overseas jurisdictions.
Assessment information
Assessments are subject to change up to 8 weeks prior to the start of the teaching period in which you are undertaking the unit.
Title | Must Complete | Weight | Offerings | Assessment Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Assignment 1 | Yes | 30% | All offerings | Written assessment No. Words: 1500 |
Assignment 2 | Yes | 50% | All offerings | Research essay No. Words: 2000 |
Quizzes | No | 20% | All offerings |
Learning resources
Textbooks are subject to change up to 8 weeks prior to the start of the teaching period in which you are undertaking the unit.
Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material. Please note that textbook requirements may vary from one teaching period to the next.
Australian Health Law
ISBN: 9780409348491
Allen, S. and Blake, M., LexisNexis 1st 2018
Text refers to: All offerings
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