PAM 5520 - [Health Care Services: Consumer and Ethical Perspectives]

3–4 credits; 4-credit option may be used as Biology & Society senior seminar option.

Prerequisite: undergraduates by permission of instructor. Next offered 2012-2013. Enrollment limited to: 30 students.

A. Parrot.

Focuses on consumer and ethical issues faced by professionals in the health care field today. Broad topics discussed include ethical standards and guidelines, health care costs and accessibility of services, government role in health care delivery, health care as a right or privilege, private industry role in health care, services for the medically indigent and elderly, practitioner burnout and training, ethics of transplant surgery and funding, reproductive technology, AIDS research and funding, animals in medical research, right to die, and baby and granny Doe cases.