LL416
Regulating New Medical Technologies
This information is for the 2011/12 session.
Teacher responsible
Professor Emily Jackson, NAB 7.12 Availability
For LLM students, and students taking MSc Law, Anthropology and Society, and MSc Biomedicine, Bioscience and Society. Also available to other MSc students with permission from their programme director and the consent of the course convenor.
This course is capped at 30 students. Students must apply through Graduate Course Choice on LSEforYou.
Course content
Course content includes:
1. Bioethics
2. Assisted Conception
3. Regulation of genetic information; direct to consumer genetic testing; biobanks
4. Preimplantation and prenatal genetic diagnosis; sex selection; 'designer' babies; saviour siblings
5. Abortion and artificial wombs
6. Organ transplantation and xenotransplantation
7. Markets in human tissue.
8. Stem cell research
9. Cloning
10. End of life decisions; euthanasia Teaching
A weekly of two-hour seminar. Formative coursework
Students are asked to submit two 2,000 word essays.
Indicative reading
A detailed reading list will be provided. Assessment
This course is assessed by a 15,000 word dissertation due at the end of August. ^
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