Health Care Ethics

 You get to choose any topic of interest in the ever-widening domain of current health care ethics. Your paper must present a brief history of the topic, relevant ethical concepts from the semester, the range of ethical perspectives, and, finally, your own personal and well-reasoned solution/conclusion formulated using the concepts cited. Your grade will reflect the creativity and sophistication of your topic selection (i.e., more points earned for unique topics that were not covered by a chapter of the text!). The main text should be 8-9 double-spaced pages, excluding cover and reference pages. You must use at least three references, not including your textbook. References must be cited in the text and in the reference list using the APA 6.0 (or later) edition format. TEXTBOOK: Baillie, H.W., McGeehan, J., Garrett, T.M., & Garrett, R.M. (2013). In C. Campanella, A. Dodge, & T. Scalzo (Eds.), Health care ethics (6th ed., pp. 32-55, 60-82, 113-135). Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc. Topic Choice: 1. The Ethics of Transplants -Introduction -The Ethics of Organ Donation from the Patient’s Perspective -Basic Questions Regarding the Idea of Transplants -The Ethics of Cadaver Organ Donation -Increasing the Supply of Organs: Ethical Problems -The Ethics of the Health Care Team -The Health Care Provider’s Ethics of Distribution -The Society’s Ethics of Distribution -Summary -Cases for Analysis 2. The Ethics of Biomedical Research -Introduction -The Ethics of the Researcher -The Ethics of the User of Research Results -Fetal Research -Genetic Therapy -Reproductive and Therapeutic Cloning -Summary -Cases for Analysis