The University of Manchester
- Start Date: 08 Feb, 2021
- 4 weeks
- Study Content: Videos
Gain a clearer understanding of ethics and the ethical issues surrounding prenatal screening of disabilities.
Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
Course Description
This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.
Build your confidence to address ethical questions
Ethics play an important role in healthcare, and need to be considered by health professionals and patients alike. On this course, you will get a practical introduction to ethics, and develop the reasoning skills needed to deal with ethical questions.
You will build your understanding of these issues by examining the ethics of prenatal screening for disabilities, like Down Syndrome and deafness. You will also gain an introduction to bioethics and the development of medical technologies to use in health services.
This course is always available for enrolment however there will be facilitated periods throughout the year. The next facilitated periods for the course will be:
- Monday 19th September 2022
- Monday 30th January 2023
- Monday 19th June 2023
During these facilitated periods we aim to interact with students most days and aim to read all comments and questions. The course will be facilitated regularly by us for the four weeks following this date. Outside of the facilitated periods the course will be monitored intermittently by us and we cannot guarantee the same level of support outside those times.
However throughout all of the course, the learning materials and comments of your course-mates and educators will be available for you to view and interact with.
This course is for anyone with an interest in the ethical issues surrounding screening for disability or ethics in general.
This includes healthcare professionals, policymakers, prospective parents considering prenatal screening, and the medical staff delivering these services.
Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.
The University of Manchester
Tracing its roots back to 1824, The University of Manchester is part of the prestigious Russell Group of universities and is highly respected across the globe as a centre of teaching excellence and innovative research, offering outstanding facilities and more than 1,000 degree programmes. With 25 Nobel Prize winners among its current and former staff and students, the University has a history of world firsts and brilliant discoveries, from splitting the atom to giving the world graphene.
Today there are three Nobel laureates at Manchester – more than at any other British university – and almost 38,000 students, making it the largest single-site university in the UK.
The University has three core goals: to undertake world-class research; to deliver an outstanding learning and student experience; and to be socially responsible in all its activities.
This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.
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