Research the current policy/practice pertaining to an issue of Health Care Ethics.
Assess the ethicality of the current practice and make a recommendation as to
whether it should change.
Your paper should have two main parts:
1. Choose an issue pertaining to Health Care Ethics and research the current practice in the U.S. in relation to that issue. The topic you choose for your paper may or may not be related to one of the issues we are discussing over the course of the semester, but it should be clearly related to an issue of health care. In the first part of your paper, you should lay out the various aspects of this issue. For example, if the issue is one about a certain procedure (such as abortion, euthanasia, etc.)
then you would need here to discuss things like the availability of the procedure, who makes decisions about when the procedure happens costs associated with the procedure, etc. If instead decide to write about something like health insurance,
you would need to here address similar questions (i.e. the availability of
insurance, how this relates to receiving
health care, who makes decisions and on what basis, etc.)
2. Assess the ethicality of the current practice. In this part of your paper, you
should elaborate the values involved in the issue you have chosen (e.g. autonomy, utility, etc.) and explain how these values come into tension with one another. Ultimately, you should argue that the current practice is either ethical or unethical in light of these considerations. Take a position, one way or the other: this will function as the thesis of
your paper.
Cite your sources using whatever style guide you are most familiar with (MLA, APA, or
Chicago), and provide a Works Cited page
