Bioethics

Opening

• • Define privacy

  • What do you gain by privacy? What do you lose? what does society gain? What does Society lose?

Why Privacy Matters

• • Talk about insurance companies, employers, AIDS, genetic diseases, paternity.

  • Compulsory versus voluntary screenings??

Exceptions

• • Read: Tarasoff case

  • Is it ever okay to violate privacy? Patient Confidentiality?

Founding texts

• • "The Right to Privacy" - Warren and Brandeis

  • pg 293 - 303 "Principals of Biomedical Ethics"

• Autonomy

• Informed Consent

• Justice

  • Kids

  • Elderly

  • Mentally Disabled

Opening

• • Define Paternalism

Case Study

• • Read aloud: Case 2: Nondisclosure of Prostate Cancer, pg 418 of Principles of Biomedical Ethics.

  • Arises when there is a conflict between Beneficence & Autonomy.

  • Nonmaleficence and beneficence is NOT enough

Founding Texts

• • Joel Feinberg article about hard/soft, strong/weak paternalism.

  • pg 179 "principles of Biomedical Ethics"

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