Why doesn’t Kukla think that illiteracy should be considered a medical problem? Why do Battin et. al. think that the viewpoints of bioethics and public health are in tension? Why does Longmore think we have a double-standard when it comes to suicide prevention for disabled people?

BIOMEDICAL ETHICS

1. A descriptive term is a term which does not make reference to any values. An evaluative term is one which does make reference to values. Why does R. M. Hare think that health is an evaluative term and not a descriptive one? (Hare)

4. Why doesn’t Kukla think that illiteracy should be considered a medical problem? (Kukla)

5. Why do Battin et. al. think that the viewpoints of bioethics and public health are in tension? (Battin)

6. Explain how economic factors contextualize the decisions for David Rivlin and Larry McAfee to seek physician-assisted suicide. (Pence)

7. What is social epidemiology and why do Venkatapuram and Marmot think it is necessary to use it in order to understand the causes of disease and illness? (Venkatapuram and Marmot)

8. Why does Longmore think we have a double-standard when it comes to suicide prevention for disabled people? (Longmore)

9. Give an example of a treatment in a clinical setting where, in order to uphold our duty to one of the principles of biomedical ethics, we must act against a different principle of biomedical ethics. Explain in your example how the first principle is upheld and the second is transgressed. (Beauchamp)

10. Explain how the deliberative model of the physician-patient relationship is said to add a brand-new skillset to clinicians.( Emanuel & Emanuel – Four Models)