10:832:356 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Neighborhood Watch, Injury Prevention, Partner Notification

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Lecture #1: Introduction to the Class
I. Purpose of the Class
ā€¢ Introduction to public health law and ethical concerns within the discipline.
ā€¢ Community health and well being versus the rights of the individual.
ā€¢ Introduction to begin thinking like a lawyer.
ā€¢ Formulating an argument, in an ethical context.
ā€¢ Examining multiple sides of an issue.
ā€¢ Weighing personal morals and ethics with professional ethics, and how are those concerns
aligned with the law.
II. A Framework for Ethical Decision Making
ā€¢https://www.scu.edu/ethics/ethics-resources/ethical-decision-making/a-framework-for-ethical-
decision-making/.
III. Ethics Versus Morals Versus Values
ā€¢ Ethics- The basis for a societyā€™s belief system.
ā€¢ Society = Ethics.
ā€¢ Normative- What we should or should not do based on a reasoned system.
ā€¢ Applied- Code of ethics, usually put out by an organization.
ā€¢ Example: Professional code of ethics.
ā€¢ Morals- An individualā€™s concept of right and wrong, usually based on beliefs created by inter-
personal relationships.
ā€¢ Personal = Morals.
ā€¢ Example: Believing abortion is wrong.
ā€¢ Values- Personal beliefs of what is important, based upon a community standard.
ā€¢ Community = Values.
ā€¢ Examples:
ā€¢ I believe it is right to feed the poor.
ā€¢ Morals because it involves a personal belief.
ā€¢ My neighborhood pays for a neighborhood watch.
ā€¢ Values because it deals with a community held belief.
ā€¢ My society prosecutes murderers.
ā€¢ Ethics because it deals with a societal belief
IV. The Train Scenario
ā€¢ Would you kill one person or a group of five people.
ā€¢ Based on numbers, you would only kill the single person.
ā€¢ If you based on ages (single person is two years old while the group is eighty years old), you
would save the two year old because they have more potential.
ā€¢ If you based it on who they are (single person is an oncologist while the group of people are
mass murderers), you would save the oncologist.
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