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2013-2014 Official General Catalog 
    
2013-2014 Official General Catalog [Archived Catalog]

HCM 196 - Healthcare Ethics


Health care ethics is designed for health care professionals and students planning to enter the health care field.  It offers participants the chance to understand health care ethics.  Some topics covered in the course will include:  autonomy in long-term care settings and withdrawing fluids and nutrition, euthanasia, and physician assisted suicide (medicide); HIV, reproductive rights, allocating health care resources, institutional missions, and obligations, competition and entrepreneurship in health care, and rationing.

Credits: 3
Hours
3 Class Hours