LAW304 Legal and Ethical Issues in Complementary Medicine (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Management (MANAG)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
This subject aims to deepen students' understanding of the legal and ethical issues involved in practice in complementary medicine. Students will consolidate their grasp of key ethical and legal concepts, and will then apply these concepts to a range of case studies relevant to complementary medicine as well as to their own professional practice.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
| Session 2 | |
|---|---|
| Distance | Wagga Wagga |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: LAW304
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
be able to demonstrate an understanding of ethical concepts central to practice in complementary medicine;
be able to apply these concepts to identify and critically discuss ethical issues arising from practice in complementary medicine;
be able to demonstrate an understanding of the major legal concepts covering practice in complementary medicine;
be able to apply these concepts to identify and critically discuss legal issues arising from practice in complementary medicine; and
be able to demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between ethics and law as they apply to practice in complementary medicine.
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
- Introduction, Codes of ethics
- Ethical theories
- Health ethics principles
- Review and consolidation of ethics material
- Consent
- Negligence
- Privacy, confidentiality and information rights and duties
- Regulation
- Review and consolidation of law material
- Case studies from complementary medicine will be used throughout to demonstrate how the major ethical and legal issues present in professional practice.
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.