Health care ethics and law is a broad field of study, which covers a range of interesting and challenging topics. The range of ethical and legal issues in healthcare is ever expanding, fuelled by both technological and social change. The role of the media in raising public awareness about the provision and development of health care means that now, more than ever, doctors have to be able to think through the ethical aspects of their practice, and communicate it effectively. Ethics and law on the medical undergraduate curriculum covers the basic principles and issues that all professionals have to be minimally aware of in order to practice. If you enjoyed that part of the curriculum but want to explore issues in greater depth, this is the course for you! On this programme you will examine the role that moral and legal frameworks play in helping to understand and resolve ethical and legal dilemmas, You will learn about the theoretical basis for those frameworks, and learn how to use them to think critically about ethics and law in healthcare. You will develop knowledge of moral theory (philosophy) and law, and also transferable skills in critical thinking reasoning, argumentation and writing.

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