ENG 285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Medical Ethics, Pathos, Primum Non Nocere
6 Mar 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Rhetoric appeals: logos, use of logical argument and hard evidence like statistics and facts, pathos, fostering empathy through emotional detail, personal accounts, and anecdote, ethos, balances evidence from various perspectives to show fairness and unbiased approach. Induction and deduction: evaluates from cases to theorem/conclusion (induction) or from theorem/conclusion to cases (deduction) If there was a gym installed into the building that workers could use for free, then there will be less sick days that employees take. Conceptual analysis: providing a clear definition (classification) or making distinctions (partition) Example: competence, emotional competence vs. intellectual competence, suicidal behavior, attempt to kill oneself vs. self harm. Case comparison: the use of thought, experiments, or comparisons with other similar instances to look at the case from a different perspective. Would that change how we think: his quality of life can be viewed differently. Sometimes these come into conflict with one another.
