Assignment task: Read/review the following resources for this activity:
Textbook: Chapter 11 (The Elements of Moral Philosophy Authors: James Rachels, Stuart Rachels
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Education)
Lesson
Minimum of 2 scholarly sources
Instructions
Develop, in detail, a situation in which a health care worker might be confronted with ethical problems related to patients and prescription drug use OR patients in a state of poverty.
The scenario must be original to you and this assignment. It cannot be from the discussion boards in this class or any other previous forum.
Articulate (and then assess) the ethical solutions that can be found using "care" (care-based ethics) and "rights" ethics to those problems.
Assessment must ask if the solutions are flawed, practicable, persuasive, etc.
What healthcare technology is involved in the situation? What moral guidelines for using that kind of healthcare technology should be used there? Explore such approaches using utilitarianism, Kantian deontology, ethical egoism, or social contract ethics.
Say how social technologies such as blogs, crowdfunding, and online encyclopedias can be used. What moral guidelines for using that kind of healthcare technology should be used there? Develop such policies using utilitarianism, Kantian deontology, ethical egoism, or social contract ethics.
You should not use any text you used in a discussion board or assignment for this or any previous class.
Could you cite the textbook and incorporate outside sources, including citations?
Requirements
Length: 2-3 pages (not including title page or references page)
References page (minimum of 2 scholarly sources)