PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Moral Relativism, Virtue Ethics, Applied Ethics

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9 Jun 2014
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Midterm on february 2nd will cover the following material: Not to be too concerned with agapistic and religiously oriented ethics. Be able to distinguish definitions of different theories. Callahan"s article on the who organization of health. Susan sherway and mary warren"s articles on abortion: carl (ta) office hours on tuesday february 2nd at 10am, room 219, arts building. It"s the application of general ethical theories, principles and rules to problems of therapeutic practice, health care delivery, and medical and biological research. Hippocrates formulated the first code of ethics for health care professionals ( hippocratic oath ). This oath outlined how physicians should conduct themselves in their professional practice: bioethics has a close relationship with the law. Law defines social boundaries and conditions for the health care delivery. Laws hold only in the and depends on the will of the lawmakers. Laws may be unethical jurisdiction where they have been passed.

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