Medical Ethics & Law MA

King's College London, University of London

Our MA in Medical Ethics & Law focuses on the legal and ethical questions raised in the context of medicine. These may* include debates about: consent to treatment in the case of adults decision-making where an adult lacks capacity to consent to a given treatment duties of care relating to treatment and to information disclosure the treatment of children adolescents and consent to or refusal of treatment assisted reproduction and abortion assisted suicide, euthanasia and end of life decisions organ donation psychiatric ethics and mental health law criminal law and mental disorder autonomy and public health the allocation of scarce resources reproductive ethics disability global health ethics and the ethics and politics of the body. The MA in Medical Law focuses on various of the legal aspects of the above, with the option of studying two ethics modules. *Optional module availability may vary, for instance due to staff sabbatical leave.

King's College, London