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Mar 10, 2025
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JS 740 - Medical and Legal Issues (3 units)
Analysis of selected issues, combining scientific/medical and case law perspective. Topics include medical malpractice, informed consent, parents’ rights, birth, AIDS, drug addiction.
Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. critically describe current health law trends and medical advances that are being addressed by state and federal courts.
2. critically describe the evolving structure of the health care enterprise in the United States and its effect on access and delivery of health care.
3. critically describe the current trend toward increased federal control over health care in the United States.
4. critically describe life, death and the legal issues that are involved at both the beginning and the end of life.
5. write judicial decisions involving health care disputes that are consistent with both state and federal law.
6. summarize a specific area of health law in a short paper.
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