PHIL H324 Bioethics
This course focuses on ethical issues arising in the relationship between healthcare practitioners and their patients. It considers the moral rights of patients and the ethical responsibilities of healthcare practitioners to their patients and the public. Topics may include truth-telling, confidentiality, informed consent and shared decision-making, the right to refuse treatment, euthanasia and assisted suicide, decision making for incompetent patients, advance directives, brain death, and the ethics of abortion.