Ethic: Greater Good Analysis
Option 1: The first option is to name and describe in detail a key specific and recent healthcare technology.
What are at least two key moral problems this technology creates? What are the proper moral guidelines for dealing with it in your view?
Compare your approach to what a utilitarian and ethical egoist would say (each independently).
Consider whether differing ethical beliefs globally might or not agree with what you say.
Option 2: In the second option, name and describe in detail a key specific and recent social technology.
What are at least two key moral problems this technology creates?
What are the proper moral guidelines for dealing with it in your view?
Compare your moral approach to what a utilitarian and social contract ethicist would say (each independently).
Consider whether differing ethical beliefs globally might or not agree with what you say.
Doe inherited one million dollars and is known for giving money to charity. Without a transplant, he will probably be forced to spend all his money searching for a kidney outside of the usual legal channels.
Patient Two is Jane Doe (no relation to John). Patient Two is a mother of two children (ages 21 and 24). She is divorced and 55 years old.
She developed kidney problems due to eating a high-fat and high-sugar diet. If she does not receive a kidney within one month, doctors believe she will die. Patient Three is an orphan. This orphan lives in a state facility. She was born with a genetic condition that constantly damages her kidney.
The only known approach to her condition is to provide her with a kidney transplant every so often.
The other patients come from religions that do not oppose organ donation. Who should get the kidney?
Why should that candidate receive it over the others? Devise a course of social action and a solution for this case by using the ethics of egoism and then utilitarianism to a key moral conflict involving health care in this case.
Appraise the interests of diverse populations (in terms of ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, etc.) and how they relate to the case. Consider whether differing ethical beliefs globally might or not agree with what you say.
