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LW405: Health Law & Policy
Semester 1 | Credits: 5
The objective of this course is to provide you with an overview of the main legal principles relating to health care in Ireland including comparative perspectives, to enable you to study the policies that underpin health care practice and to enable you to understand how these laws and policies interrelate and apply in practice.
(Language of instruction: English)
Learning Outcomes
- Identify core legal principles in health law and human rights law
- Understand the dynamics of health policy
- Relate a specific topic to the overall module and to other areas of law
- Apply the various legal principles that arise in extra-ordinary situations to everyday situations
- Compare Irish health law and policy with other jurisdictions
- Identify areas in need of reform
- Use the range of sources referred to in lectures
Assessments
- Written Assessment (100%)
Teachers
- CHARLES O'MAHONY:
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- CARMEL FLYNN:
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- Michelle Lantry:
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Reading List
- "Madden D., Medical Law in Ireland (The Netherlands: Kluwer International, 2014)." by n/a
- "Mills S., Clinical Practice and the Law (Dublin 2008)" by n/a
- "Burke S., Irish Apartheid: Health Care Inequality in Ireland (Dublin 2009)" by n/a
- "Wren M.A., Unhealthy State: Analysis of a Sick Society (Dublin 2003)" by n/a
- "Donnelly M., Healthcare Decision-Making and the Law (Cambridge 2010)" by n/a
Note: Module offerings and details may be subject to change.