LEI 254 - Bioethics and the Law

3 Credit(s)

Elective course for the bachelor’s and associate’s degrees.
Advances in medical technology have forced society to make increasingly complex decisions regarding life and death. Students are introduced to topics such as constitutional issues, health law technology, surrogacy, privacy issues, AIDS, wrongful birth/wrongful life, physician/patient relationship, cloning, human genome project, and constitutional issues. This is a nonlegal specialty course.
Prerequisite(s): Introduction to Law or Introduction to Legal Nurse Consultant.