Apr 27, 2024  
2015-2016 Graduate Academic Catalog 
    
2015-2016 Graduate Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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PE 651 - Seminar on Medical Ethics

2 lecture hours 0 lab hours 2 credits
Course Description
This graduate seminar entails a self-conscious consideration of the requirements of professional ethics corresponding to the emergence of perfusion as an autonomous profession. Two topics dominate the discussion: the tension between the requirement of professional autonomy and the surgeon’s presumed role as the “captain of the ship,” and perfusion ethics’ unique combination of elements of the fields of business ethics and biomedical ethics. (prereq: PE 7050 or consent of the instructor)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • No course learning outcomes appended.

Prerequisites by Topic
  • None 

Course Topics
  • Technology as value-laden, heart disease and quality of life, ethical issues in clinical trials, age-based health care rationing, conflicts of interest, transplant ethics, risk as an ethical category, implant ethics.

Coordinator
Ronald Gerrits



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