LLM Healthcare Ethics and Law (Distance Learning)

The LLM in Healthcare Ethics and Law provides the highest quality of training in healthcare ethics and healthcare law in a flexible and interdisciplinary way. We cater to the practical needs of healthcare and legal professionals and those in related fields. Although the LLM course covers both ethics and law, the focus is on law.
You will study a wide variety of ethical and legal subjects, including:

autonomy;
consent;
refusal of treatment;
confidentiality;
the moral status of the foetus;
resource allocation;
genetic testing;
HIV testing;
medical malpractice;
clinical negligence;
organ and tissue transplantation;
fertility treatment;
genetic manipulation;
research ethics;
stem cell research;
euthanasia.
As well as studying these topics from a UK perspective, many are also considered from a global perspective.

All students studying at master's level in Healthcare Ethics and Law, will study the three core subjects of: Philosophical Bioethics, Medico-Legal Problems and International Issues in Healthcare. 

LLM students will then study two law-based options and complete a predominantly law-based dissertation.