Bioethical issue regarding any disease/disorder

 

Choose a bioethical issue regarding any disease/disorder that interests you, and pertains to any of the body systems that we are covering in class. Bioethics concerns itself with addressing ethical issues in healthcare, medicine, research, biotechnology, and the environment. Typically these issues are addressed from many different disciplines. You will research the issue, discuss the ethics surrounding it, provide some background and description, and state your own opinion. Remember, this is your opinion. You will be graded on your thoroughness and presentation, not the opinion stated. Some things to consider/discuss in your presentation are: Whether one ought to act to maximize the best outcomes or ought to act to uphold important moral rules and duties? Or how to do both? Are we required only not to harm others or​‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‌‌‌‍​ must we also act in ways that benefit them or make their lives better? What should be done when we think policies or law are unethical because they don’t treat people fairly or equally? What does it mean to treat people fairly? How could we design access to a scarce resource such that all people have a fair or maybe an equal opportunity to obtain that scarce resource, e.g., organ allocation policies? How and when should we share information about a medical treatment to best permit others make informed and voluntary decisions about what is done or not done to their bodies? What resources are needed to support people in making these decisions? When can minors make their own health care decisions? Who should decide if a minor child’s opinions about a medical treatment for them differs from that of his/her parent(s)? You may write a paper (300-500 words​‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‌‌‌‍​)

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