Ethics

Are there instances in which private medical information should be revealed to others in order to protect individuals or the public from harm? Please explain your position using ethical reasoning and theories.

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Are there instances in which private medical information should be revealed to others in order to protect individuals or the public from harm? Please explain your position using ethical reasoning and theories. Compare the original Hippocratic Oath and the modern version created by Dr. Louis Lasagna in 1948. What difference do you find to be … Read more

Explain at least three ethical issues that surrounded the problem and include details of monetary gain/loss, stakeholder issues and impact, criminal charges, threat to life.

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Write a 2-page paper explaining what happened with the scandal. Explain at least three ethical issues that surrounded the problem and include details of monetary gain/loss, stakeholder issues and impact, criminal charges, threat to life.  

Investigate the main arguments in favor of and against allowing same sex partners to engage in sexual relationships and allowing same sex marriage.

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Same Sex Marriage. Using John Corvino and Robert George as your primary sources, Investigate the main arguments in favor of and against allowing same sex partners to engage in sexual relationships and allowing same sex marriage. What arguments do you find most convincing, and what ones are least persuasive? If same sex relationships should be … Read more

How does Tommie Shelby argue that Rawl’s original position, in which the parties are behind a veil of ignorance, “rules out a selection of a range of principles that would entail, encourage, or exacerbate racial injustice”?

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Tommie Shelby’s “Race and Social Justice: Rawlsian Considerations” How does Tommie Shelby argue that Rawl’s original position, in which the parties are behind a veil of ignorance, “rules out a selection of a range of principles that would entail, encourage, or exacerbate racial injustice”? “Race, Personhood, and Equal Citizenship,” Shelby considers Charles Mills’ objection that … Read more

What would Kant’s categorical imperative and Aquinas’s natural law theory say about euthanasia and physician assisted suicide?

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Choose only one of the ethical problems among (Euthanasia & Physicial Assisted Suicide, Abortion, Sexual Morality, Legal Punishment, Environmental Ethics, Animal Rights) and give a detailed account of how any of the ethical theories mentioned in the book and first half of the course (Relativism, Egoism, Utilitarianism, Kant’s theory, Natural Law, Virtue Ethics, Ethics of … Read more