Public Health 397L - ST-Public Health Law & Ethics
Fall
2020
01
3.00
Lawrence Pellegrini
TU TH 1:00PM 2:15PM
UMass Amherst
68408
Fully Remote Class
lcpelleg@umass.edu
This course discusses the legal and ethical issues at the heart of public health and medical care delivery systems in the US. Topics include issues related with bio-medicine, death and dying processes, medical research, organ procurement and donation, quarantine practices, reproductive technology, in addition to other topics of current interest. Cultural, legal, professional, religious, and other lenses will be used to explore examined issues.