Master in Bioethics & Society King's College London – 2013

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Master in Bioethics & Society King's College London – 2013 Website: http://bit.ly/Z6BawW  This Master offers advanced interdisciplinary training in the analysis of pressing ethical issues in contemporary medicine, bioscience and health policy.  Core programme content • Social and Ethical Controversies in Biomedicine • Moral Theory and Medical Ethics • Dissertation in Bioethics and Society  Indicative non-core content A wide range of optional modules enable students to focus on specific ethical issues or concepts, such as end of life decision-making, autonomy in psychiatry, justice in resource allocation, social determinants of health, ageing, and translation from the laboratory to the clinic. Some modules include: • Translational Research: Linking Medicine, Science & Society • Social Science Approaches to Biomedicine • Pharmaceuticals and Society • War, Trauma and Medicine • Science, Policy and Society • Genomics and Society • Psychiatry and Society • Ethics at the End of Life   • Topics in Medical Ethics with a choice of two from - Ethics of Psychiatry - Reproductive Ethics - Reproduction and Genetics - Justice and the Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources. KEY BENEFITS • Introduces students to key concepts, theories and findings from philosophy, social science and the law • Enables students to apply this knowledge to the analysis of ethical dilemmas in contemporary medicine, bioscience and health policy • Fosters understanding of the societal, cultural and historical aspects of these complex dilemmas (with a particular regional focus on Asia and South America ) • Offers introduction to the latest bioethical controversies and methods, as well as reflection upon the role of bioethics in societal discourse and health policy • Explores the implications of an increasingly globalized world of health and health policy • Equips students with the research skills necessary for engaging in current ethical debates surrounding health Dr Annette Rid, Senior Lecturer in Bioethics and Society Department of Social Science, Health & Medicine King's College London UK  KMC/2012/HSS Twitter http://twitter.com/eqpaho