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PHIL 140 Medical Ethics               FALL 2023             140  FNT CRN 31582            

         MODULE  TOPICS

Start

End

Reading

Discussions End Assignments Due

Written Assignment 

0  Course Orientation

8-25-23 8-27-23

All   COURSE INFO DOCUMENTS OUTLINE- SYLLABUS

8-27-23

TEN STEPS Orientation Assignments Exercises email academic integrity pledge

1   Introduction to the Course 

8-28-23 9-3-23

Online Textbook ch 1

9-3-23

Module 1 Assignment    

2  Ethical Traditions

9-4-23 9-17-23

Online Textbook ch 2

 

9-17-23

Module 2 Assignment  

3  The Moral Climate of Health Care

9-18-23 9-24-23

Online Textbook   ch3

9-24-23

Module 3 Assignment  

4  Professionalism, Elitism and Health   Care

9-25-23 10-1-23

Online Textbook   ch4

10-1-23

Module 4 Assignment

5  Ethics and Nursing

10-2-23 10-8-23

Online Textbook  ch5

10-8-23

Module 5 Assignment

6  Patient's Rights, Truth and Consent

10-9-23 10-15-23

Online Textbook  ch6

10-15-23

Module 6 Assignment

7 Human Experimentation

10-16-23 10-22-23

Online Textbook ch 7

10-22-23

Module 7 Assignment      case study due

8  Abortion

10-23-23 10-29-23

 Online Textbook  ch 8

10-29-23

Module 8 Assignment      case study due

MID TERM BREAK /  FEEDBACK 10-30-23 11-5-23 No new Reading 11-5-23  

9  Severely Impaired Newborns, Futility  and Infanticide

11-6-23 11-12-23

Online Textbook  ch 9 VIDEOS

11-12-23

Module 9 Assignment      case study due

10  Care of the Dying

11-13-23 11-19-23

Online Textbook   ch 10

11-19-23

Module 10 Assignment      case study due

11  Deliberate Termination of Life and Physician Assisted Suicide

11-20-23 11-26-23

Online Textbook   ch 11

11-26-23

Module 11 Assignment      case study due

12  Reproduction: Assistance and Control

11-27-23 12-3-23

Online Textbook   ch 13

12-3-23

Module 12 Assignment      case study due

13  The Allocation of Resources: Scarcity and Triage

12-4-23 12-10-23

Online Textbook  ch 16 VIDEOS

12-10-23

Module 13 Assignment       case study due

14   A Claim of a Right to Health Care

12-11-23 12-17-23

Online Textbook   ch 17

12-17-23

Module 14 Assignment      case study due

Culminating Activity

12-18-23 12-18-23

Course Evaluation : Mod

12-18-23

Culminating Assignment