HLTH3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Normative Ethics, Genetic Testing, Personal Boundaries
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Many issues re hcp - client relationship, consent, issues at the beginning and end of life, abortion, euthanasia, clinical research, organ and tissue transplantation, clinical research, organ and tissue transplantation, clinical decision-making and so on . Public health ethics- resource allocation, organisational ethics, genomics, genetics, data science, research integrity and ethics, vaccination, infectious diseases, climate and health and so on. The shared nature of genetic information, limitations of testing, predictive, presymptomatic testing, boundaries for genetic testing. People can be ethically virtuous without the aid of philosophy. They act for genuine normative reason, and work out what they do on the basis of considering such reasons. Philosophers engage in the project of articulating and defending normative ethical theories search after theories which cannot be discovered or, at least, justifiably accepted in a direct fashion though non-philosophical thinking, and which among other things) Specify the reasons that justify the acts that virtuous people do (when they are acting rightly)
