Perspectives on Healthcare Law (M5024)
Perspectives on Healthcare Law
Module M5024
Module details for 2022/23.
15 credits
FHEQ Level 6
Module Outline
This module introduces students to a range of perspectives through which to analyse, and applied to, issues of healthcare law. Students will gain knowledge of the subject’s substantive legal rules. Furthermore, students will be introduced to a range of analytical perspectives including underlying ethical principles, autonomy and welfare, relational and familial perspectives, the role of Parliament and the courts, professional self-regulation and regulatory approaches to healthcare. The module is also designed to create an awareness of the historical development of health care law and policy and of how their contemporary nature is influenced by wider political and economic transformations at the national, EU, and global levels.
Module learning outcomes
Systematically explain key legal rules and principles of issues in the field of healthcare law
Systematically explain the range of perspectives which can be employed to analyse critically issues in the field of healthcare law
Evaluate critically the current law in the field of healthcare
Demonstrate the ability to initiate and undertake independent research to develop critical perspectives on issues of healthcare law
| Type | Timing | Weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Essay (3000 words) | Semester 1 Assessment Week 1 Thu 16:00 | 100.00% |
Timing
Submission deadlines may vary for different types of assignment/groups of students.
Weighting
Coursework components (if listed) total 100% of the overall coursework weighting value.
| Term | Method | Duration | Week pattern |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autumn Semester | Lecture | 1 hour | 11111011111 |
| Autumn Semester | Seminar | 2 hours | 01010010101 |
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Prof Jo Bridgeman
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