Jul 01, 2024  
2023-2024 Winona Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Winona Undergraduate Catalog
Add to Portfolio (opens a new window)

PH305 Health Care Ethics and Policy

3 credit(s)
This course provides a survey of some of the specific issues in health care ethics and policy that are faced today by patients, providers, insurance companies and other constituencies in the health care arena. Such issues include: access — how are limited resources to be allocated? What policies determine access? Informed consent – what information must patients possess in order to make reasonable and informed decisions about their health care? What compensatory obligations do providers have in the realm of informed consent? Funding — should the quality of health care vary by the means of the payer? Death — what is death? Also, should a patient have the right to choose the time and means of his or her death? Procedures and technologies — are all possible procedures and technical interventions morally defensible? Also offered as HH305 



Add to Portfolio (opens a new window)