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Textbook: An Introduction to Bioethics: 9780809146239: Medicine & Health Science Books @ Amazon.com by Thomas A. Shannon, Nicholas J. Kockler, Paulist Press, 2009.

** Some information below about the class and you will find the questions in last page. (Please when you start to answer the questions, write a big paragraph with more details for each question “one page at least for each”). Course Objectives: Learning Objectives LEAP Outcomes Product/Evidence

1. Examine contemporary bioethical issues to include: research ethics, patient rights, abortion, emergency contraception, the right to live and die, assisted reproductive technologies, prenatal diagnosis, organ transplants, costs of health care, physician assisted suicide, and genetic engineering.

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2. Define key terms related to the study of ethics to include terms such as: ethical, unethical, moral/ immoral, good/ bad, right/ wrong, beliefs, values, attitudes, opinions, prejudice, bias, autonomy, informed consent, and individual rights.

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3. Explain the relationship between ethical theories lending influence to bioethical decision making to include: Consequentialism, Deontologism, Institutionism and Right Ethics theories. How these effect the decision process and influence morality in this process.

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4. Describe how to apply ethical principles such as: Autonomy, Beneficence, Justice, and Nonmaleficence, to the decision making process.

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5. Compare the influences and benefits of ethical decision making in and around medical dilemmas, ie: provider refusal of services, discontinuing life support.

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6. Evaluate the role and appropriateness of technology as it contributes to or interferes with ever changing options and needs in areas of healthcare service and bioethical issues.

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7. Demonstrate an understanding and appreciation for the complexity surrounding most, if not all ethical decision making process.

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8. Contrast personal/professional responsibilities in various healthcare related occupations.

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Tentative Course Schedule 1. Bioethics Defined – terminology and definitions related to study of bioethics.

2. Technology – Nature of and Responsibility of users

3. Thematic Ethical Theories and Related Issues

4. Patient Rights: Moral and Related Legal Issues

5. Definition of Death: Four Approaches to realizing Death

6. Birth Technologies and Related Issues: Abortion, Contraception, Reproductive

Technologies, Prenatal Diagnosis, Preconception Gender Selection

7. Death and Dying and Related Issues: Quality of life issues, The Right to Die,

Foregoing and Withdrawing Treatment, Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide

8. Specialized Issues: Genetic Engineering Human Beings, Stem Cell Research/Cloning

Organ Donor & Transplantation and Research on Human Subjects.

Possible Bioethics Topics • Organ Transplantation: Which of several matched donors should receive a particular organ?

• Reproductive Technologies: In vitro fertilization, Surrogacy, Mifepristone (RU-486)

and Misoprostol, pre-implantation embryo screening, cloning. Is there a significant difference between cloning sheep for pharmaceutical production and cloning humans?

• Human Genome Project: Should employers be able to screen job applicants for specific genetic conditions? Who should have access to this information: family members, lawyers, insurance agencies?

• Gene therapy: What are the potential ramifications of somatic and germ-line gene therapy?

• Fetal Tissue Transplantation: Does a fetus have rights? If so, what are they and who is responsible for representing the interests of the fetus?

• AIDS: issues involving disclosure, privacy, discrimination, insurance coverage.

• Euthanasia: What is the right to die? How does withdrawing or withholding treatment differ from physician assisted suicide?

• Health Care Allocation: How do we decide who gets access to health care, especially when expensive equipment and therapies are needed?

• Refusal of Services by Providers: There is a growing movement in this country by Pharmacists and Physicians to refuse services based on moral conscious positions. When does this jeopardize and compromise their ability to serve their patients?

In addition, there are several case-based scenarios with discussions linked to each topic. Links to additional readings and related websites are included at the end of topic.

• Advance Care Planning • Advance Directives • Breaking Bad News • Complementary Medicine • Confidentiality • Cross-Cultural Issues and Diverse Beliefs • with an Emphasis in Pediatrics • Do Not Resuscitate Orders • during Anesthesia and Urgent Procedures • End-of-Life Issues • Ethics Committees and Consultation • Futility • HIV and AIDS • Informed Consent • in the Operating Room • Interdisciplinary Team Issues • Law and Medical Ethics • Maternal / Fetal Conflict • Mistakes • Neonatal ICU Issues • Parental Decision Making • Physician Aid-in-Dying • Physician-Patient Relationship • Professionalism • Public Health Ethics • Research Ethics • Resource Allocation • Spirituality and Medicine • Student Issues • Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment • Truth-telling and Withholding Information

Further Bioethics Resources

• Bioethics Related Websites • Readings by Topic • Related Websites by Topic • Professional Societies & Organizations

Credits and Acknowledgements

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