Health Governance, Law and Ethics

Summary

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Sydney Law School offers one of the nation's leading postgraduate programs in health and medical law. Health law provids wide-ranging interdisciplinary coverage of contemporary legal and social issues in health care. The area would be of particular interest to lawyers with a health/professional liability practice, hospital and other health organization administrators, doctors, nurses and other eligible health professionals. An exciting feature of the Health Law is the opportunity for dialogue between the legal and health professions about legal and ethical issues of relevance to both practice and administration.

Supervisors

Professor Roger Magnusson, Professor Margaret Allars, Professor Peter Cashman, Professor Cameron Stewart.

Research location

Sydney Law School

Program type

Masters/PHD

Synopsis

Current areas of research include:

Government Regulation, Health Policy & Ethics
Legal Regulation of New Technologies in Health Care
Legal Issues Relating to Reproduction
Genetics
Globalisation of Health Law
Adult Guadianship and Competence
Mental Health Law & Policy
Ageing & Disability
Drugs, Drug Law & Policy
Ethics
Public Health Law & Governance
Health Development
Privacy, Confidentiality, & Fair Information Practices
HIV/ AIDS and the Law
Legal Personhood
Law & Sexuality
Law & Psychology

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Opportunity ID

The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 492