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BETH5201: Ethics in Health Innovation
2026 unit information
This Unit of Study allows students to critically engage with ethical issues arising in health innovation. The Unit first considers ethics approaches to health innovation. Then, students will critically consider ethical issues underlying a range of innovations in health, especially new technologies. Case studies are included to reflect recent developments in the field. These issues can vary each year and there may be opportunity to iteratively build in consideration of issues the cohort have an interest in. In recent years, issues considered have been to do with genomics, human reproduction, stem cell research and nanotechnology. Students will explore the ethical limits to health innovation and develop their own position on key concepts and how they are deployed.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Public Health |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Articulate and reflect on what health innovation means and how its ethical analysis can be approached
- LO2. Analyse, compare and critically evaluate ethical arguments or positions arising in a range of contexts in health innovation.
- LO3. Critically assess cross-cutting issues in health innovation and their role in ethical deliberation.
- LO4. Develop and defend reasoned ethical positions on health innovations through written and oral argumentation that deploys relevant ethical concepts, theories or frameworks.
Unit availability
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal evening | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney | |
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Semester 2 2025
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Online | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Semester 2 2026
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Normal evening | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Semester 2 2026
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Online | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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