Undergraduate LLB Contract Law lessons - complete course or revision sessions

In this subject, we will explore legal and ethical concepts and dilemmas within medicine and healthcare. The course will introduce students to key issues governing the boundaries and obligations within healthcare. This is a dynamic area of law that is regularly the subject of public debate because of the morally contentious nature of many issues within healthcare. While statutes have been created to regulate some issues, such as abortion, other legal dilemmas have been determined by the courts, drawing from criminal, civil, public, and human rights law principles. The course examines how moral and ethical debates have influenced, or been influenced by, the law. Students will reflect critically on the relationship of morality and the law in relation to areas of conflict, such as autonomy v paternalism. We are all patients at some point in our lives, and so in addition to the academic, intellectual, and professional benefits of studying this area of law, students will gain an appreciation of their rights as a patient, and how the therapeutic obligations of health care professionals are regulated. This subject will be of specific interest to law undergraduates and healthcare and social care practitioners, in particular.