Murdoch University
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Murdoch University program
Health Law
Critically analyse and discuss major legal and regulatory functions in the context of health.
In this Health Law program, you'll explore a number of of the basic concepts and contemporary topics in that area where health provision intersects with law. You'll look at legal and regulatory frameworks - focusing on consent, medical liability and the regulation of practitioners. Controversial topics such as access to medicines and compulsion in treatment will also be introduced in order to explore the limits of the law.
Courses
4 courses
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the program you should:
- Be able to identify and explain the general framework of Australian health law;
- Have gained an understanding of and the ability to critically discuss the principles and problems of medical liability;
- Have gained an understanding of and the ability to critically discuss major regulatory issues pertaining to practitioners in the area of health law, the problem of compulsion in health care in the context of certain treatments or the institutionalization of patients/clients (e.g. mental health); and
- Have gained an understanding of and the ability to critically discuss pertinent issues of the law of the regulation of drugs.