LAW5119 Health Law Problems

Health Law Problems introduces students to law’s role in harm reduction and the promotion of health and well-being in a context where individual choice is socially constructed. The module examines the role of consent and welfare in authorising general medical treatments (e.g. blood transfusions, surgeries, drugs, hormones, clinically assisted nutrition and hydration, contraception) and distinguishing between patients on grounds of capacity, maturity, mental disorder, residential status, in ways which mobilise and construct gender, disability, race and class.