it's 3 short journals each one is half page or one page as maximum
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intro_4q_1.pptxMedical/Biomedical Ethics
A subfield of *applied* ethics
Concerned with what is right or wrong to do in *particular cases*
Deals with *practical issues* that arise in the context of
Health and illness
Healthcare
Biomedical science
Applied Ethics
What is applied to what?
We apply moral principles to make decisions about what is wright or wrong in real life cases of ethical puzzles.
As opposed to abstract scenarios detached from reality.
Levels of Ethics
Metaethics
Normative ethics
Applied ethics
Metaethics
What is the source of morality?
How do we justify ethical norms?
Normative ethics
What are norms?
Norm as an *average value* (Normal)
Norms as *prescriptions* for how things ought be, or what is right (Normative)
Applied ethics
*Evaluation* of practical decisions according to accepted norms
Application of ethical norms
Deciphering Ethical Problems
Recognize evaluations (value judgments) and distinguish them from nonevaluative statements.
Distinguish ethical vs. nonethical/nonmoral (*not related to ethics/morality*) evaluations.
The evaluations must be ultimate (cannot be overridden).
They must be universal.
They must treat the good of everyone alike.
Determine who is to decide.
Relativism
What is morally right or wrong is relative to the agreed upon norms of a given individual or a given society.
There is no universal morality.
Social relativism
Personal relativism
Universalism
Morality is universal.
There is only one correct moral system.
What is the source of this system?
God?
Nature?
Intuitions shared by most humans?
