BIOMEDICAL ETHICS FINAL EXAM
Choose two
Question One: Advance Directive
A.
What is the purpose of an Advance Directive? What are some potential
problems for implementing one’s Advance Directive? How can these be
avoided?
B.
Create your very own Advance Directive based upon the Chapter Seven
“Issues to be Addressed in an Advance Directive.” For certain Issues and
Items, you will need to do some research. For example, if you decide to
refuse treatments, you will need to convey with specificity the types and
manners of treatments you wish to forgo.
Question Two: The Insurance Problem
A.
Obtain a copy of your insurance plan. (If you do not have an insurance plan,
I wish I could say that one will be appointed to you. If you are uninsured, you may
obtain a copy of a plan that is not your own so long as it is current.) What are the
major areas of coverage? What would you change about it? Imagine yourself not
as a beneficiary of insurance protection, but as an administrator attempting to
create a plan. Would the changes you made as a beneficiary still hold if you were an
administrator? What are your philosophical persuasions regarding social utility vs.
justice in health care allocation? Why do you think the way you do?
B.
What is your solution to the problem of the uninsured and the NEED for the
rationing of health care?
Question Three: A Debate Analysis
A.
Choose a debate other than your own. Give the topic of that debate and the
thesis under debate. Proceed to list and analyze three claims in favor of that thesis
and three claims against the thesis. At the conclusion of your considerations of the
debate, please give your own opinion as to whether you were persuaded to adopt the
position of one of the debaters. Do you think that people’s moral systems are
subject to change based on rational discourse? Why or why not? (This is a more
profound question than you might think. It calls into question the whole process
and efficacy of moral debate between rational people…)