Course Overview: This course is part of the   Doctorate Degree Program in Thanatology at the School of Grief Education at AITU.

It is a 6-hour semester course that must be completed within 6 weeks.

You will learn about issues of morality, types of ethical theory, autonomy, and informed consent, nonmaleficence, beneficence, justice, patient-professional relations, professional virtues, and ideals. Also, you will learn how these issues can be applied in all areas of health care.

Course Assignments: There are 18 assignments for which the student has two mandatory books as materials. The student has to make use of the materials from the complete program and what they seem appropriate and relevant material located elsewhere in the public domain.

Course Objectives:

Become familiar with ethics and its application to biomedical and bioethics. How they can be a support in all areas of health care particularly in patient’s rights and decision making.

Start to develop a critical but open view to developing science and familiarize yourself with the many subjects and interactions between those science subjects within the field of thanatology.