Medical Ethics (PHIL 120 O02)
J.D.Rollins
Final Exam
Assignment
Students are to write a research
paper on an ethical issue in modern medicine.
Students are to select one of the
following topics:
1.
Physician-Assisted
Suicide (pgs. 437-501 in the textbook)
2.
Abortion
(543-573)
3.
The Allocation of
Scarce Resources (233-275)
4.
Reproductive
Cloning (669-699)
Minimum Requirements
-Papers
must be between five and seven pages.
-Papers
must include a works-cited in addition to the 5-7 pages of
content.
-Papers
must be typed and double spaced. (Times
New Roman, 12)
-Papers
must be in MLA format.
-Papers
must use at least three textbook
articles as primary sources. Students
can often borrow articles from different sections of the textbook because
ethical issues in modern medicine often overlap.[1] Students can cite the HBO documentary “How to Die in Oregon” in place of one
of the required three textbook articles.
-Students
must blend multiple direct quotations from all three textbook articles into the
body paragraphs of the essay. Essays
with an abundance of direct textual support typically score well.
-Exams
must be uploaded into Blackboard in one of the following file formats: .doc,
.docx, .docm, .ppt, .pptx, .odt, .txt, .rtf, .pdf, and .html. Other file formats (such as Pages) will not
be accepted.
-Papers
are to be submitted through Blackboard no later than 6/29/2024 at 11:59pm.
Expectations
The purpose of this assignment is
for students to become informed about a contemporary moral issue. Students are expected to demonstrate an
understanding of both sides of the issue in their presentation of the scholarly
articles. Most of these articles either
implicitly or explicitly reference each other.
This means that students, in analyzing each article, will need to form
an evaluative judgment about whether an author has successfully responded to
the arguments of other authors. The
paper should not merely summarizing the positions of the authors; rather,
students are expected to relate the concepts of each author to those of the
other authors and then synthesize that relation into a thesis statement.
[1] Sometimes the articles in one section of the book also
apply to topics in another section of the book.
For example, if a student were to write on Physician-Assisted Suicide,
the student could draw from any of the articles from pages 437-501. But, the student could also reference and
discuss articles from pages 311-417 because these articles, in most cases, are
also relevant to the topic of Physician-Assisted Suicide.
