This unit explores the way the legal system addresses issues relating to health care, medical research and medical technology and the social, ethical, economic and political influences on the law. It examines the legal understanding of bodies, birth, life and death and the impact of law on the control of bodies and on choices about reproduction and dying. -- Course Website
Instructor: Assistant Professor Judy Allen, Associate Professor Meredith Blake
Prerequisites: LAWS1111 Law, Conflict and Change (formerly LAWS1111 Legal Systems)