Category: Ethics

Required Elements
You will choose a topic that reflects current and contemporary ethical issues. Some suggestions include:
Human organs (selling, allocation of, other related topics), polygenic embryo testing/designer babies, abortion, death penalty, healthcare for undocumented immigrants, supervised injection sites for drug users, clinical trials and medical research (including purposeful infection, equitable representation, informed consent), human embryos/fetal tissue for research, artificial intelligence in medicine, mandated vaccinations/refusal to vaccinate, distribution of COVID-19 vaccine, global vaccine distribution, ethical vaccine testing, wait times for prior authorization of medical treatments, cost containment in healthcare vs. quality & safety of care, privacy with infectious diseases (HIV, TB, etc.), marketing practices of drugs and medical equipment, equity in medical resources (care, medications, procedures, etc.), pricing transparency, or
Must include:
• At least one citation from the Textbook
• At least two citations from peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles published within 5 years
• When information is from a reference source, there must be appropriate in-text citations after the first use of information from the reference
You may also include recent news or other online articles about the ethical issue to support the debate and gather discourse from both sides of the debate. However, they will NOT count as a required peer-reviewed scholarly journal article
Citations should use the APA (7th ed.) format. The citation may use a smaller font so as not to detract from the presentation.
A reference section should be included using APA (7th ed.) format :
• For a poster, the references can be at the bottom in a text box
A title page section should be included using APA (7th ed.) format:
• For posters, infographics, or brochures this should be at the top.
Questions to be answered in the assignment:
1. Ethical Issue
• Introduce your contemporary ethical issue topic, background information, statistics, and the main ethical problem(s) presented
• Examine how personal morals may conflict with this issue providing specific examples
2. Pros and Cons debated with ethical issue (please use bullet points for each followed by thorough discussion. You can use phrases rather than complete sentences as long as it explains your point):
• Discuss the pros of this contemporary ethical issue; how it may benefit the individual and society
• Discuss the cons of this contemporary ethical issue; how it may have a detrimental effect on the individual and society
• Keep in mind you should include the viewpoint of the different sides of the ethical argument and depending on the point of view the statement could be both a pro and a con. Think of it as a debate.
3. Ethical Principles
• Explain how at least two (2) ethical principles from page 88 of the textbook that are either upheld or violated related to the contemporary ethical issue. Please do NOT choose justice as this is addressed below; please do NOT choose both beneficence and nonmaleficence. Please use bullet points for each principle followed by a thorough explanation including consideration from both sides of the debate. Performing a library search for the name of your topic “and ethics” or “and autonomy” or one of the other principles can help add depth to this section.
4. Social Determinants of Health and/or Bias
Choose to discuss either:
o Social determinants of health (an introduction to social determinants of health can be found at Healthy People 2030 Social Determinants of Health – click on the hyperlink)
 Explain what social determinants of health are, including the five domains. Be sure to paraphrase and cite your source.
 Apply at least two (2) social determinants of health domains and how they may play a role in your contemporary ethical issue. Provide an explanation and specific examples.
Performing a library search with your topic “and social determinants of health” can provide more depth and perspective.
OR
o Bias:
•
 Define implicit or unconscious bias in your own words (paraphrase). An introduction to implicit bias can be found at Kirwin Institute Bias Module (click on the hyperlink)
 Examine how implicit or unconscious bias may play a role in your contemporary ethical issue. Provide an explanation and specific examples. Performing a library search with your topic “and bias” can provide more depth and perspective.
5. Justice (distributive or social):
• Choose either distributive or social justice and explain its main concepts in your own words (paraphrase). This should show an understanding of the type of justice. This should be more than one sentence and supported with evidence.
• Examine how this type of justice (distributive or social) may be seen in your chosen contemporary ethical issue. Be thorough and provide specific examples supported by reputable references. Performing a library search with your topic “and social justice” or “and distributive justice” can provide more depth and perspective. Ex: search for “abortion and social justice”.
6. Social and Professional Responsibility
• Explain your professional responsibilities related to your chosen contemporary ethical issue using specific guidance from your Code of Ethics (ANA Code of Ethics, ACHCA Code of Ethics, or ACHE Code of Ethics). Please provide a specific interpretive statement, provision (sub-provision), expectation, or responsibility statement from the appropriate Code of Ethics. This should be more than one sentence.
• Explain your social responsibility regarding your chosen contemporary ethical issue. Consider ways you can advocate for change in your community, state, nation, or globally to either support or halt the ethical issue. Example: what organization or political action committee could you join to advocate for your topic? This should show evidence of critical thinking and be specific to the topic.

What is the difference between higher and lower pleasure for Mill? Why does it matter? Is it objective that a pleasure is higher or lower? Is playing Candy Crush higher or lower than going for a hike? 250 words try not to go over by a lot.
you MUST use SHORT, direct quotations in APA style (at least 2 per paragraph). MAKE SURE TO USE THE SOURCES PROVIDED ONLY
Use chapter 7 of “elements of moral philosophy”
Use chapter 3 of “the right thing to do”

Use your own ideas but also incorporate (or at least don’t ignore) anything relevant from the reading. Answer this question or “Option 1 about the Justification of Punishment”. Except that: Students who have taken a previous ethics course from me should answer the “Alternative question for Week 7: Active versus Passive Euthanasia.”
Read this selection from Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov Download this selection from Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov that makes the case that no one, not even God, can or should forgive a person for a harm that person did to another — that one can only forgive a person for a harm that person did to oneself. 1) Do you think that is true or not? Why or why not? 2) Are there criteria that are individually necessary and jointly sufficient for someone to deserve forgiveness or that make it right to forgive someone, or is forgiveness just up to anyone to forgive another for any reason s/he decides or any way s/he feels? 3) Is there any way a person who has murdered an innocent person can deserve forgiveness, if forgiveness is something that has criteria that can make it deserved? Why or why not? 4) If you choose not to let another person’s wrong or terrible actions “consume you” or “eat you up with venom and anger” and keep you in a state of anger or frustration, but instead you choose to put it out of your mind and “go on with your life”, is that to “forgive” the person? Why or why not? 5) If out of a sense of love for all other human beings, you immediately say you forgive someone who has wronged you, even terribly, is that actually forgiving them? Why or why not?
To try to make this easier for you, consider a fairly easy, non-emotional kind of case and see whether you can figure out what you should do to deserve forgiveness and then try to generalize from there. Consider the following: your dog gets out of your yard and goes into the neighbor’s yard and poops on his driveway and tears up some of his flowers in a flower bed. What do you need to do in order to deserve forgiveness for this? There are at least four things. What are they? Generalize then about any wrongdoing. And, can a different neighbor forgive you for what your dog did to this neighbor’s yard? Why or why not?
I do not have this book
The Required Textbook is DOING ETHICS By Lewis Vaughn. It is an excellent book with many good articles. I will also supply free supplementary material. You can use the 4th, 5th, or 6th (eText) edition:
DOING ETHICS
By Lewis Vaughn.
EDITION: 4th, 5th, or 6th (eText)
DoingEthics4thEdition.jpg
4th Edition
5thEditionDoingEthics.jpg
5th Edition
6thEditionDoingEthics.jpg
6th Edition (eText)
PUBLISHER: NORTON
ISBN of 4th edition: 9780393265415
ISBN of 5th edition: 978-0-393-64026-7
ISBN of 6th edition (eText): 9780393885903
Comments from Customer
Discipline: ETHICS

Major Writing Assignment 1:
Write an intellectual autobiography that traces your intellectual journey. What has been your relationship to reading and writing? What does your intellectual journey reveal to you? Please refer to and quote from the assigned readings in Week 1 Module.
This assignment can be 3-5 pages long. This is just an estimate. You are not graded on the length of your papers as the rubric reveals.
Below, I have an included a video where I share my Intellectual Autobiography as an example of a possible way to respond to the prompt. I hope you find it helpful.
Formatting:
Please be sure to include a header on the upper left hand corner of your paper, that includes the following:

The Header: (Goes on the upper left hand side of the page)
Your Name
The course ETHN 300W
Prof. Tejada
Major Writing Assignment 1: Intellectual Autobiography
I inch margins
Page numbers top left (Your last name and page number)
12 pt Font
For this assignment, MLA- in-text quotation format will work fine. See link to the Purdue Online Writing Lab to help with MLA formatting

critical summary of the Turnbull essay, “The Function of Maps.”
Summarize the main point/s that Turnbull is making. (They Say)What argument is he making about discourse? (I Say) What do you learn about discourse and its relationship to power?
Remember to use examples from the text.
For this assignment format your paper in MLA.

Skills demonstrated in this assignment
SLO 1,2,3
Core Ethnic Studies Competencies Bullets: 2, 3, 4
Objective 1
Objective 2
Remember that a Critical Summary has the following parts (Parts are not the same as paragraphs):
Intro with a thesis
They Say– Summary of the author’s main points
I Say– Your ideas about the author’s main points
Conclusion

How do the ideas of feminism or the ethics of care interact with other social justice causes; e.g., anti-racism, queer rights, or disabled rights?
What is the difference between equity and equality? How is this distinction tied into the idea of feminism?
Is it possible to eliminate the concept of gender? Can you imagine what the world might look like without this concept?

Use your own ideas but also incorporate (or at least don’t ignore) anything relevant from the reading. Answer this question or “Option 1 about the Justification of Punishment”. Except that: Students who have taken a previous ethics course from me should answer the “Alternative question for Week 7: Active versus Passive Euthanasia.”
Read this selection from Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov Download this selection from Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov that makes the case that no one, not even God, can or should forgive a person for a harm that person did to another — that one can only forgive a person for a harm that person did to oneself. 1) Do you think that is true or not? Why or why not? 2) Are there criteria that are individually necessary and jointly sufficient for someone to deserve forgiveness or that make it right to forgive someone, or is forgiveness just up to anyone to forgive another for any reason s/he decides or any way s/he feels? 3) Is there any way a person who has murdered an innocent person can deserve forgiveness, if forgiveness is something that has criteria that can make it deserved? Why or why not? 4) If you choose not to let another person’s wrong or terrible actions “consume you” or “eat you up with venom and anger” and keep you in a state of anger or frustration, but instead you choose to put it out of your mind and “go on with your life”, is that to “forgive” the person? Why or why not? 5) If out of a sense of love for all other human beings, you immediately say you forgive someone who has wronged you, even terribly, is that actually forgiving them? Why or why not?
To try to make this easier for you, consider a fairly easy, non-emotional kind of case and see whether you can figure out what you should do to deserve forgiveness and then try to generalize from there. Consider the following: your dog gets out of your yard and goes into the neighbor’s yard and poops on his driveway and tears up some of his flowers in a flower bed. What do you need to do in order to deserve forgiveness for this? There are at least four things. What are they? Generalize then about any wrongdoing. And, can a different neighbor forgive you for what your dog did to this neighbor’s yard? Why or why not?
I do not have this book
The Required Textbook is DOING ETHICS By Lewis Vaughn. It is an excellent book with many good articles. I will also supply free supplementary material. You can use the 4th, 5th, or 6th (eText) edition:
DOING ETHICS
By Lewis Vaughn.
EDITION: 4th, 5th, or 6th (eText)
DoingEthics4thEdition.jpg
4th Edition
5thEditionDoingEthics.jpg
5th Edition
6thEditionDoingEthics.jpg
6th Edition (eText)
PUBLISHER: NORTON
ISBN of 4th edition: 9780393265415
ISBN of 5th edition: 978-0-393-64026-7
ISBN of 6th edition (eText): 9780393885903
Comments from Customer
Discipline: ETHICS

Judge the medical case studied in class during Week 8 in the Discussion Board. In the video, philosophers applied the three major ethical principles you learned in this class: Kant’s Categorical Imperative, Utilitarianism, and Virtue Ethics. In a five paragraph essay, apply ONE ethical theory to decide the moral course of action in the medical case of the premature twins studied in class. Apply the ethical theory in each paragraph to support your arguments throughout the entire essay. Not using the ethical theory results in an automatic zero. Using more than one ethical theory results in an automatic zero. (50 points) You have 4 hours to complete this exam. You only have ONE attempt to complete this exam.

After studying the course materials located on Module 7: Lecture Materials & Resources page, answer the following:
Cure / care: compare and contrast.
Basic care: Nutrition, hydration, shelter, human interaction.
Are we morally obliged to this? Why? Example
Swallow test, describe; when is it indicated?
When is medically assisted N/H indicated?
Briefly describe Enteral Nutrition (EN), including:
NJ tube
NG tube
PEG
Briefly describe Parenteral Nutrition (PN), including:
a. Total parenteral nutrition
b. Partial parenteral nutrition
Bioethical analysis of N/H; state the basic principle and briefly describe the two exceptions.
Case Study: Terry Schiavo (EXCEL FILE on Module 7: Lecture Materials & Resources page). Provide a bioethical analysis of her case; should we continue with the PEG or not? Why yes or why not?
Read and summarize ERD paragraphs #: 32, 33, 34, 56, 57, 58.

Submission Instructions:
The paper is to be clear and concise and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation, and misspelling.
If references are used, please cite properly according to the current APA style. Refer to your syllabus for further detail or contact your instructor.
attached are the resources and
video:

Overview:
As you have seen in this week’s required resources, cultural factors and biases affect the decisions we make about ethical issues. This is true for us, and it is also true for characters in books, movies, and television shows. Now you will take time to reflect on an ethical issue that you have encountered in a movie, book, or television show. For instance, Disney offers a variety of media that have examples of ethical ideologies.
Directions
In this short paper, you will explore how cultural factors and biases affect decision making regarding ethical issues.
Specifically, you must address the following:
Describe a Western, Eastern, or Indigenous Tribal ethical issue from a movie, book, or television show.
Be sure to specify whether the example is a Western, Eastern, or Indigenous Tribal ethical issue.
If the example contains elements of more than one ethical ideology (Western, Eastern, or Indigenous Tribal), be sure to specify what the ethical ideologies are.
Describe how you see bias affecting the decisions the characters made in your example.
Be sure to state what you think the bias is.
Remember that bias can be positive or negative. Everyone has bias.
Explain what cultural morals and values appeared to be guiding the decisions the characters made about the ethical issue.
Be sure to give examples to support your opinion.
What to Submit:
Submit your paper as a one- to two-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Use at least one source to support your short paper. Follow APA citation guidelines when citing sources both throughout and at the end of your paper.