Problem 1: Reflect on your readings and comment on the current state of the research area by answering the following questions:
- What is your ACE score and your brief thoughts around this assessment?
- What is the current state of the research on this topic based on the articles you read (please be mindful to include a discussion of the articles you have read)?
- What limitations or gaps in the research exist that should be addressed/studied?
- What do all of the articles have in common? Why you think that these articles were assigned together? How do the articles differ from one another?
- What biblical truths could be applied to this area to enhance our knowledge or research direction?
Problem 2: "A judge has contacted a surgical group at the request of two prison inmates. The surgeons discuss whether they should as the judge and inmates propose. One inmate with pedophilia, convicted of sexual abuse of children, seeks castration. The other inmate is extremely violent and seeks psychosurgery. Both hope to shorten their incarceration (Veatch, 1997, p. 309)."
- Using at least two scholarly citations (one for each argument), provide an argument in favor of and an argument opposed to performing psychosurgeries or other physiological interventions for behavioral control like the ones described above on consenting patients who are violent, antisocial or otherwise capable of criminal acts.
- Explain which stance (for or against) is most consistent with your own beliefs about the use of psychosurgery or other physiological interventions for behavioral control.
- Using at least one scriptural citation, explain which stance (for or against) is most consistent with a biblical worldview of how to govern violent or antisocial individuals.