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The ethical dimensions of major areas of contention and themes in health care and its provision such as beginning and end of life issues, resource allocation, animals and ethics, mental illness and ethics, new and emerging technologies, genetics and ethics.
BITC 404 Ethics and Health Care follows on from BITC 401 and goes into more detail regarding some of the main historical, contemporary and emerging issues of bioethics. A long, self-chosen essay topic allows students to explore an issue of interest in some depth.
| Paper title | Ethics and Health Care |
|---|---|
| Paper code | BITC404 |
| Subject | Bioethics |
| EFTS | 0.25 |
| Points | 30 points |
| Teaching period | Semester 2 (Distance learning) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees (NZD) | $2,069.75 |
| International Tuition Fees (NZD) | $8,949.50 |
- Prerequisite
- BITC 401 or BITX 401
- Restriction
- BITX 404
- Limited to
- DipGrad, GDipBHL, MBHL, MHealSc, PGDipHealSc
- Notes
- Students who have not passed the normal prerequisite may be admitted with approval from the Director of the Bioethics Centre.
- Contact
- Teaching staff
Convenor: Dr Elizabeth Fenton
Module Teachers: Dr Simon Walker, Professor John McMillan, Dr Taryn Knox, Associate Professor Neil Pickering and Dr Elizabeth Fenton- Paper Structure
The paper has four modules (each lasting three weeks) covering topics such as:
- Ethical issues at the beginning of life, suffering
- Identity and end of life care
- Public Health Ethics
- Global Health Ethics
- Psychiatry, mental illness and Ethics
- Teaching Arrangements
- Thirteen 2-hour audiovisual seminars from 12.00 pm to 2.00 pm on Tuesdays in the second semester
- Textbooks
- Textbooks are not required for this paper - readings will be provided via eReserve.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Scholarship, Communication, Critical
thinking, Cultural understanding, Ethics, Information literacy, Research, Self-motivation.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
- Students who successfully complete the paper will
- Understand the application of a range of ethical concepts to issues in health care
- Reflect critically upon those ethical concepts and arguments they are deployed to advance
- Critically analyse a range of bioethical concerns in health care
- Show knowledge of developing research in selected areas of health care ethics
- Identify and explore integrating themes emerging in these areas
- Develop a question and research, analyse, synthesise and present a reasoned set of arguments related to that question
