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LAWS5071 – Health Law and Ethics
2020 – Session 2, Special circumstance
Notice
As part of Phase 3 of our return to campus plan, most units will now run tutorials, seminars and other small group learning activities on campus for the second half-year, while keeping an online version available for those students unable to return or those who choose to continue their studies online.
To check the availability of face to face activities for your unit, please go to timetable viewer. To check detailed information on unit assessments visit your unit's iLearn space or consult your unit convenor.
General Information
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| Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Convenor
George Tomossy
Contact via e-mail
6FW 510
Wed 1-2 (weeks 1-7, 8-13) via Zoom
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| Credit points |
Credit points
10
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| Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
80cp in LAW or LAWS units including (LAWS3000 or LAW314) and (LAWS2500 or LAWS217 or LAW317) and (LAWS2400 or LAW203)
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| Corequisites |
Corequisites
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| Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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| Unit description |
Unit description
This unit introduces students to health law and ethics in Australia. Duties, obligations and responsibilities that arise in the context of the health practitioner-patient relationship will be examined, as well as areas of health law that pose ethical and/or regulatory challenges. These include:legal concepts and areas of law integral to health care treatment (capacity and consent; negligence and criminal law; management of health care information); applied health law and ethics (mental illness and disability; preconception, conception and birth; end of life; human tissues); and broader systemic regulation of health care (regulation of health care practitioners; public health; research involving humans). Contemporary issues will be explored to examine interrelationships between health law, policy, ethics, regulation, human rights and social justice. |
Important Academic Dates
Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- ULO1: Critically analyse the fundamental doctrines, concepts, principles, values and sources of regulation, relevant to health law.
- ULO2: Analyse how health law and ethics may impact upon practice and/or research.
- ULO3: Integrate and synthesise knowledge from a range of multi- disciplinary sources to generate appropriate responses to health related problems that raise ethical, social, legal and/or human rights issues.
- ULO4: Communicate effectively with legal and non-legal audiences in relation to health related matters that raise ethical, social, legal and/or human rights issues.
General Assessment Information
The Faculty of Arts Late Submission Policy requires that: “Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests." Applications for a special consideration are made electronically via ask.mq.edu.au and should be accompanied by supporting documentation.
Word limits will be strictly applied and work above the word limit will not be graded. Footnotes and bibliographies are not included in word counts; however, footnotes are primarily to be used for referencing.
Assessments must be submitted in the format prescribed in detailed instructions provided on the unit iLean page. All assessments in the unit are to be submitted electronically via Turnitin. Plagiarism detection software is used in this unit.
All assessments must be appropriately referenced, applying the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (4th ed).
Further instructions and marking rubrics for each of the assessments in the Unit will be provided on the unit's iLearn page.
Assessment Tasks
| Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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| Class Participation | 10% | No | ongoing (weeks 2-12) |
| Online Quiz | 25% | No | Wk 7 (7-11 Sep) and wk 12 (26-30 Oct) |
| Expert Submission | 40% | No | wk 13 (2/11/20 10am) |
| Expert Appearance | 25% | No | 9/11/20 to 20/11/20 via Zoom (sign-up online) |
Class Participation
Assessment Type 1: Participatory task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 8 hours
Due: ongoing (weeks 2-12)
Weighting: 10%
Discussion questions related to prescribed readings are provided in advance of tutorials. Student understanding of core concepts and their application to contemporary problems in Australian health law will be assessed based on their verbal responses to these questions during the tutorial (class participation). Each student will be rostered in advance to lead discussion for specific tutorials topics, allowing them to prepare content and reflect on tutorial questions in advance. Students are not expected to provide ongoing contributions every week for the entire semester; they are assessed only on the basis of substantive contributions made to class discussion during the tutorials on which they have been rostered.
Students who are unable to contribute on their rostered date/time due to illness or misadventure, with special consideration, will be provided an opportunity to roster on an alternate day or asked to provide supplementary written work in lieu to demonstrate their learning.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Critically analyse the fundamental doctrines, concepts, principles, values and sources of regulation, relevant to health law.
- Analyse how health law and ethics may impact upon practice and/or research.
- Integrate and synthesise knowledge from a range of multi- disciplinary sources to generate appropriate responses to health related problems that raise ethical, social, legal and/or human rights issues.
- Communicate effectively with legal and non-legal audiences in relation to health related matters that raise ethical, social, legal and/or human rights issues.
Online Quiz
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 15 hours
Due: Wk 7 (7-11 Sep) and wk 12 (26-30 Oct)
Weighting: 25%
Consists of two online timed quizzes to assess understanding of subject matter covered in prescribed readings.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Critically analyse the fundamental doctrines, concepts, principles, values and sources of regulation, relevant to health law.
Expert Submission
Assessment Type 1: Report
Indicative Time on Task 2: 60 hours
Due: wk 13 (2/11/20 10am)
Weighting: 40%
Students will provide a 3000-word submission (plus a one-page executive summary) to a mock Parliamentary Inquiry .
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Critically analyse the fundamental doctrines, concepts, principles, values and sources of regulation, relevant to health law.
- Analyse how health law and ethics may impact upon practice and/or research.
- Integrate and synthesise knowledge from a range of multi- disciplinary sources to generate appropriate responses to health related problems that raise ethical, social, legal and/or human rights issues.
- Communicate effectively with legal and non-legal audiences in relation to health related matters that raise ethical, social, legal and/or human rights issues.
Expert Appearance
Assessment Type 1: Viva/oral examination
Indicative Time on Task 2: 15 hours
Due: 9/11/20 to 20/11/20 via Zoom (sign-up online)
Weighting: 25%
Each student will appear in a fifteen minute solo in-camera expert witness appearance before the Committee Chair of a mock Parliamentary Inquiry, responding to questions and providing verbal clarification of arguments presented in their written Expert Submissions.
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Critically analyse the fundamental doctrines, concepts, principles, values and sources of regulation, relevant to health law.
- Analyse how health law and ethics may impact upon practice and/or research.
- Integrate and synthesise knowledge from a range of multi- disciplinary sources to generate appropriate responses to health related problems that raise ethical, social, legal and/or human rights issues.
- Communicate effectively with legal and non-legal audiences in relation to health related matters that raise ethical, social, legal and/or human rights issues.
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
- the academic teaching staff in your unit for guidance in understanding or completing this type of assessment
- the Writing Centre for academic skills support.
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
Delivery and Resources
All Lectures for this unit are pre-recorded and can be accessed via the unit iLearn page.
Tutorials will be conducted face-to-face and/or online (via Zoom), commence in Week 1 and conclude in Week 12. Students should consult the official Timetable for class times, dates and locations (if face-to-face) and mode of delivery at a specified time at: http://timetables.mq.edu.au Instructions for online tutorials via Zoom will be provided on the unit's iLearn page.
Online content for this unit can be accessed at http://ilearn.mq.edu.au
Computer and stable Internet access are required in order to successfully complete this unit. Basic computer skills (e.g., internet browsing) and skills in word processing are also a requirement. All written assessments are to be submitted electronically via Turnitin.
PRESCRIBED MATERIALS
The required textbook for this unit is:
(1) Anne-Maree Farrell, John Devereux, Isabel Karpin and Penelope Weller, Health Law: Frameworks and Context (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
(2) Any further readings will be identified on the unit's iLearn page.
Unit Schedule
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Week |
Topic |
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1. |
Introduction to Health Law and Ethics |
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2. |
Right to Health |
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3. |
The Therapeutic Relationship |
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4. |
Consent to Treatment |
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5. |
Law at the End of Life |
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6. |
Health Governance |
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Public Health Law and Ethics |
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8. |
Health Information, Privacy and Confidentiality |
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9. |
Law and the Human Body |
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10. |
Law at the Beginning of Life |
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11. |
Mental Health Law |
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12. |
Linkages: Determinants, Rights and Governance |
Policies and Procedures
Macquarie University policies and procedures are accessible from Policy Central (https://staff.mq.edu.au/work/strategy-planning-and-governance/university-policies-and-procedures/policy-central). Students should be aware of the following policies in particular with regard to Learning and Teaching:
- Academic Appeals Policy
- Academic Integrity Policy
- Academic Progression Policy
- Assessment Policy
- Fitness to Practice Procedure
- Grade Appeal Policy
- Complaint Management Procedure for Students and Members of the Public
- Special Consideration Policy (Note: The Special Consideration Policy is effective from 4 December 2017 and replaces the Disruption to Studies Policy.)
Students seeking more policy resources can visit the Student Policy Gateway (https://students.mq.edu.au/support/study/student-policy-gateway). It is your one-stop-shop for the key policies you need to know about throughout your undergraduate student journey.
If you would like to see all the policies relevant to Learning and Teaching visit Policy Central (https://staff.mq.edu.au/work/strategy-planning-and-governance/university-policies-and-procedures/policy-central).
Student Code of Conduct
Macquarie University students have a responsibility to be familiar with the Student Code of Conduct: https://students.mq.edu.au/study/getting-started/student-conduct
Results
Results published on platform other than eStudent, (eg. iLearn, Coursera etc.) or released directly by your Unit Convenor, are not confirmed as they are subject to final approval by the University. Once approved, final results will be sent to your student email address and will be made available in eStudent. For more information visit ask.mq.edu.au or if you are a Global MBA student contact globalmba.support@mq.edu.au
Student Support
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Learning Skills
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The Library provides online and face to face support to help you find and use relevant information resources.
Student Services and Support
Students with a disability are encouraged to contact the Disability Service who can provide appropriate help with any issues that arise during their studies.
Student Enquiries
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IT Help
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When using the University's IT, you must adhere to the Acceptable Use of IT Resources Policy. The policy applies to all who connect to the MQ network including students.
Changes from Previous Offering
Weighting of assessment tasks have been adjusted since this unit was last offered:
- Class Participation reduced to 10% (from 15%); and
- Expert Appearance increased to 25% (from 20%).