LAW 235 - Comparative Health Law Seminar.

All health care systems face a wide range of issues, including how to assure access to health care, control health care costs, respond to medical negligence, protect the confidentiality of medical information, allocate power in the professional-patient relationship, and decide when life begins and ends. Though these issues are common to all health care systems, the legal approaches that different systems take to them vary dramatically. This seminar will begin by providing an overview of the world’s health care and legal systems. Students will then prepare and present papers dealing comparatively with a range of health law concerns. Two hours. Jost Not offered in 2014-2015.