ATS1264 · Ethics, health and justice

Overview

The unit investigates how the law and public policy should respond to contemporary advances in biomedical technologies. The unit focuses on core topics in bioethics to explore the implications of the concepts of justice, discrimination and responsibility for how access to and uses of biomedical technologies should be regulated. Topics discussed may include: reproductive technologies; organ transplantation; genetic testing; advances in neurosciences; and artificial intelligence in healthcare.

Areas of study: Bioethics

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. discuss key ethical, policy and legal issues raised by recent advances in medicine and biotechnology;
2. identify and evaluate the implications of the concepts of justice, discrimination, autonomy, and responsibility in debates in bioethics;
3. apply research, writing and reasoning skills to develop and communicate your own informed judgements about these ethical issues.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.