Bioethics questions (2700 words in total)

1. Read pages 593-604 and Write a 300-word post on the following questions addressed in the essays: According to Harris or Glannon, Is there a difference between gene therapy and genetic enhancement? Explain your answer. According to Harris or Glannon, what are the advantages and disadvantages of gene therapy, and should it be pursued? According to Harris or Glannon, is gene therapy eugenics? Explain. 2. Read pages 40-53 and Write 250 words: Explain the main idea of care ethics, and the role that emotions are supposed to play in care ethics. How does care ethics deal with impartiality? Give an example (of your own) of how care ethics could be applied to bioethics. How does feminist ethics approach morality, and bioethics issues in specific? What are some advantages and disadvantages of this approach? 3. Read chapter 3 and Write 1500 words using atleast 3 readings from the text: Evaluate the place of truth in the doctor-patient relationship. Namely, does a physician have an obligation to tell patients the truth? In your analysis, defend or critique the views of Thomasma, Lipkin, Kant, and Cullen & Klein. Questions to consider include, should doctors tell the ‘whole truth’ or should they tell patients what they need to know and can understand? Should doctors’ decision to tell the truth depend on the relationship, or on the kind of patient, thus suggesting the priority of virtue ethics/care ethics in truth-telling? What priorities are most important in deciding to tell the truth to patients? What priorities are most important in deciding to breach patient confidentiality (harm to others, etc.)? Also, examine how at least two moral theories would approach this issue. Discuss examples or legal cases relating to this issue to illustrate your ideas. You may also discuss patient confidentiality. You may discuss the coronavirus pandemic. 4. Write a 300-word essay examining Norm Daniels' arguments that there is a "positive" right to health care. Possible questions to answer: (a) Daniels' argument relies on the idea of fair equality of opportunity. Explain this idea. (b) How does this idea contrast with the utilitarian framework for allocating health care (697-698 top)? (c) What does Daniels believe the right to health care includes, since people are not entitled to have their every medical need met (699-700)? Explain his view of which needs should be met, from the moral perspective. (d) What is a 'tiered' medical system, and what is his view regarding whether a tiered system is morally preferable (p. 701-702)? Do you agree with his view? How might you criticize his argument? In your post, you may discuss the current state of the American healthcare system. Note: the goal now is to examine the philosophical arguments regarding health care, and not focus so much on the current political debate on this topic. 5. Write a 300-word Discussion Board post on Buchanan OR Childress; respond to someone who wrote on the other topic. Possible ideas to write your post on: Buchanan's argument has to do with how to allocate health care. What is Buchanan’s argument in favor of “enforced beneficence” - in other words, some sort of taxation - (p. 747) that would subsidize health care for those who are needy? Do you agree with Buchanan that “reasonable libertarians” (p. 747) would accept that there is a basic duty of charity to those in need? Explain his view that people are more likely to contribute to the decent minimum project if others will also do so (p. 748). What do you make of Buchanan’s argument that certain individuals and groups (such as those mentioned on p. 746) should be guaranteed basic minimum health care, rather than all citizens? For Childress, et al, you can consider, (a) how is public health defined, in terms of "public" and "health" and what are the ethical considerations for its importance? What are the considerations that are recommended to be taken into account when there is a conflict among general moral considerations in public health crises (786ff)? (b) What is the difference between public health interventions and paternalistic interventions taken to increase public health (789) and how should we go to reduce autonomous action in the name of public health? What are the most important considerations when thinking about public health for individuals and for groups? In what sense is public health a matter of sick justice and/or human rights (791-2). Please feel free to discuss the Affordable Care Act or the pandemic in your examples.