WeeklyTOPICS

TOPICS/CALENDAR
(NB: Ethical Theories are all in the first 50 pages of the text, but as seen by the "blue" letters, the theories are introduced throughout the semester, along with a key issue or conflict)

Click on the appropriate "Week #" to get to an Assignment page:
Week I      Introduction, "Progressive Scenario,"
           The Health Care Crisis
Week II    Crisis cont., Historical Background and Role of Modern Medicine
                   Intro. to Philosophy, Ethics & Morality, relation to Law & Medicine
Week III   Dr./Pt./Nurse rights, roles, relationships, duties
            AIDS: the test of Patient Rights
Week IV Natural Law, the Hippocratic Oath
            Abortion
Week V     Abortion, Review
               Test #1
Week VI Utilitarianism
           Reproductive Issues
Week VII   Reproductive Issues
             Kant's Ethics
Week VIII Informed Consent
                   Confidentiality, Truth Telling
Week IX Euthanasia
            Feminist Critique / "Care" Ethics
                 Test #2
Week X    Treatment of Impaired Infants
Week XI   Distribution of Medical Services
                   Rawls' Theory of Justice
Week XII Issues in Genetics
Week XIII Issues in Genetics con’t.
                    Professional Relations / conflicts of value
Week XIV   last presentations due. Review