Description
Duration: Self-paced – Instructor Assisted
Credits: Fl. Bar Pending | CE Pending | 45 CEU IACET | CME: 50 CME
Required Text: Ronald Munson, ed., Intervention, and Reflection: Basic Issues in Medical Ethics, Ninth Edition.
Bioethics is concerned with the ethical questions that arise in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law, theology, and philosophy. It includes the study of values relating to primary care, other branches of medicine (“the ethics of the ordinary”), ethical education in science, animal, and environmental ethics. Ethics also relates to many other sciences outside the realm of biological sciences and Bioethics is also claimed as a new ethic to answer complex questions of contemporary society.
What is covered:
I. Euthanasia.
- Preliminaries, 555-584
- Ethical Theory – Utilitarianism, 863-870
- The Quinlan Case, 613-615
- Rachels, 585-589
- Ethical Theory – Natural Law, 885-891
- Gay-Williams, 593-596
- Ethical Theory – Ross’s Deontological Theory, 876-881
II. Abortion.
- Preliminaries, 432-461
- Noonan, 469-472
- Marquis, 461-466
- Thomson, 472-482
III. Surrogates and Clones.
- Preliminaries, 330-373
- Ethical Theory – Kant’s Ethics, 870-876
- Steinbock, 411-418
- Anderson, 418-426
- Kass, 401-406
- Strong, 406-411
IV. Physicians and Patients
- Preliminaries, 2-53
- Ethical Theory – Autonomy and Paternalism, 900-904
- Lipkin, 73-74
- O’Nell, 53-60
- Dworkin, only p. 68.
- Hirsch, “The Rational Physician” (handout)
V. Scarce Medical Resources.
- Preliminaries, 620-645
- Ethical Theory – Rawls’s Theory of Justice, 881-885
- Ethical Theory – Distributive Justice, 897-900
- Annas, 662-666
- Spital and Erin, 659-662
VI. Distributing Health Care.
- Preliminaries, 675-694
- Englehart, 702-708
VII. Informed Consent.
- Preliminaries, 109-163
- Singer, 196-203
- Cohen, 203-209
VIII. Genetics.
- Preliminaries, 216-281
- Davis, 285-294
