Bioethics and Healthcare Ethics
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DM208/308
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This unit focuses on the biblical perspective of the value of human life and healthcare, basic Christian bioethical principles, the primacy of the person and the duty of reasonable care of life and health at every stage. The moral principles relevant to the identity of Catholic hospitals are discussed, including formal and material cooperation with others performing unethical activities in facilities leased from Catholic institutions. Topics covered include abortion, euthanasia, the withholding of treatment, HIV/AIDS, rape, the anencephalic fetus, transplants of donated organs, human research, the allocation of scarce resources, triage and other issues raised by the environment, and modern medical terminology: prenatal diagnosis, treatments for infertility, reproductive technology and embryonic stem cell research.
Undergraduate Prerequisites
DM106
Graduate and Postgraduate Prerequisites (DM308)
DM106 or DM350
Requirements
3 hours per week
Undergraduate Assessment
second level
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one 2,000 word essay |
40% |
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one 2 hour written examination
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60% |
| third level |
one 3,000 word essay |
50% |
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one 2 hour written examination |
50% |
Graduate and Postgraduate Assessment (DM308)
| one 4,000 word essay |
60% |
| one 2 hour written examination |
40% |
Bibliography
- Ashcroft, Richard E., and Raanan Gillon, eds. Principles of Health Care Ethics. 2nd ed. Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
- Ashley, Benedict M., Jean de Blois, and Kevin D. O’Rourke. Health Care Ethics: A Theological Analysis. 5th ed. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006.
- Catholic Health Australia. Code of Ethical Standards for Catholic Health and Aged Care Services in Australia. Red Hill, ACT: Catholic Health Australia, 2001.
- Ford, Norman. The Prenatal Person: Ethics from Conception to Birth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
- Geach, Mary, and Luke Gormally, eds. Human Life, Action and Ethics: Essays by G. E. M. Anscombe. Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2005.
- Gill, Robin. Health Care and Christian Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Kuhse, Helga, and Peter Singer. Bioethics: An Anthology. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
- Morrison, Eileen E., ed. Healthcare Ethics: Critical Issues for the Twenty-First Century. 2nd ed. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 2009.
- O’Rourke, Kevin D., ed. A Primer for Health Care Ethics: Essays for a Pluralist Society. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000.
- Taylor, Carol R., and Roberto Dell’Oro, eds. Health and Human Flourishing. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006.
