- Body Systems
- Health Care
- Threats to Health
- Healthy Living
Ethics in Health Care
- introduction to ethics in health care
- specific ethical considerations in health care
- resources and references
Introduction to Ethics in Health Care
What is health care all about? Why do we do what we do? What are our responsibilities and liabilities? These are important questions that will be answered here.
Specific Ethical Considerations in Health Care
- Genetic Testing - Many ethical considerations here.
- Informed Consent - thinking about it, I think consent is maybe not the best term to use because it implies power differential. Perhaps 'informed choice' is better?
- Consent in Minors
- Truth-telling
- Ethical issues and intersex people
Resources and References
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