Identify the professional code of ethics for your professional specialty or a sp

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Identify the professional code of ethics for your professional specialty or a specialty that interests you. Describe the decision criteria and analyze each theory using examples and the Ethical Theory Matrix Template.
Moral Theories, Principles of Health Care Ethics, and Professional Ethics Codes
Ethics is a branch of philosophy devoted to the study of morality. Ethics has a long history of theories about distinguishing right from wrong and identifying the principles of living a good life. For this assessment, you will be asked to apply foundational ethical principles such as autonomy and justice in a relevant health care setting.
Preparation
As you begin work on this assessment, it may be helpful to review the suggested resources focused on moral and ethical considerations. For your own reference, you may want to briefly jot down your thoughts related to:
The basic principles of health care ethics: nonmaleficence, beneficence, utility, distributive justice, and autonomy.
An explanation of each principle as well as your own example to illustrate the application of each.
Instructions
Drawing from the material covered in the resources as well as your own research, complete this assessment using the Ethical Theory Matrix Template [DOC].
For each theory, first describe the decision criteria: the instructions the theory gives for how to reach the morally correct choice in a situation requiring action.
Then, provide your own example of how someone might act using the decision criteria of the theory.
Finally, briefly describe the strengths and weaknesses of each theory using the last two columns of the Ethical Theory Matrix Template.
The suggested resources for this assessment could help you get a start on completing the matrix, but do not hesitate to use any other appropriate resources that you can find online, in the Capella University Library, or elsewhere.
This matrix is a tool you will use throughout the rest of the course. Submit your completed matrix as an attachment to this assessment

Write a 2–3 page paper that explains and defends your view on the issue of wheth

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Write a 2–3 page paper that explains and defends your view on the issue of whether patients with no other treatment options have a moral right to unproven drugs.
Many doctors, nurses, medical technicians, and other health care workers are involved in medical research. The field of medicine is not limited to the direct treatment of patients and involves the continued expansion of medical research. A large part of such research is clinical research, which puts patients in the role of experimental subjects. This raises challenging ethical questions, many of which stem from the fact that physicians, nurses, and others involved in clinical research have a dual role. As researchers, they are committed to generating new knowledge about diseases, developing new treatments and drug therapies, and improving the welfare of human beings in general by eliminating or controlling diseases and increasing longevity. However, clinical researchers must also be committed to providing the highest quality care for research study participants. This assessment explores ethical issues that clinical research raises and safeguards to protect the interests of patients involved in research.
Preparation
Clinical trials for drug approval involve several distinct testing phases requiring rigorous study and evidence to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of new treatments. Approval takes many years for some trials. Before approval, patients outside the clinical trial have limited or no access to experimental drugs, even though these drugs could be lifesaving. There are various groups pushing for greater patient access to experimental drugs. In recent years, the FDA has made it somewhat easier to prescribe experimental drugs, but advocacy groups say there are still too many restrictions (Munson, 2014).
This may lead to a quandary when early stages of research suggest that a drug could be effective in treating a certain disease. On one hand, offering easier access to early-stage trial drugs could help patients suffering with a medical condition. But easing access to experimental drugs could decrease available participants for clinical trials that establish whether the drug is truly effective and safe. This is an important consideration, as the vast majority of experimental drugs turn out to be completely ineffective or could have very dangerous side effects that will only show up over time and across a wider test population.
When completing this assessment, it is important to keep in mind the ethical arguments relevant to both views regarding the right to experimental drugs. It may be useful to review the suggested resources and conduct additional independent research while planning your assessment submission.
Instructions
Do patients without treatment options have a moral right to unproven drugs? Write a paper that explains and defends your view on this issue. In addition to reviewing the suggested resources, you are encouraged to locate additional resources in the Capella library, your public library, or authoritative websites to provide additional support for your viewpoint. Be sure to weave and cite the resources throughout your work. In your paper, address the following points:
Identify relevant ethical theories and moral principles.
Explain how the principle of informed consent is relevant to the issue.
Explain the costs and benefits of making unproven, unapproved experimental drugs widely available to patients. Consider the costs and benefits to the patients who take these drugs as well as other patients.
Explain arguments using examples in favor of and opposing prescription of trial drugs to wider pools of patients.
Support your view using ethical theories and/or moral principles that you find most relevant to the issue.
Additional Requirements
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting guidelines.
Length: 2–3 typed, double-spaced pages.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
Reference
Munson, R. (2014). Intervention and reflection: Basic issues in bioethics (Concise ed.). Boston, MA: Wadsworth.

Write a 1–2 page paper evaluating ethical arguments concerning abortion by raisi

by | Mar 27, 2022 | Philosophy : Ethics

Write a 1–2 page paper evaluating ethical arguments concerning abortion by raising and answering two substantive questions of validity.
For this assessment, you will continue your survey of ethical principles in health care by exploring issues around abortion. For this assessment, you will explore ethical reasoning on both sides of the issue.
Abortion is frequently debated in various political and cultural settings. Some support the right to choose; others do not. Consider the positions by looking at one argument that women have the right to abortion and another asserting that abortion is morally wrong:
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Those who support the right to choose abortion might argue that women have a right to choose what to do with their own bodies.
The argument can be expressed as follows:
If women have an unlimited right to choose what to do with their own bodies, and if the practice of abortion is merely a matter of the pregnant woman’s body, a pregnant woman has the right to choose abortion.
Women have an unlimited right to choose what to do with their own bodies.
The practice of abortion is merely a matter of the pregnant woman’s body.
Therefore, women have an unlimited right to choose what to do with their own bodies, and the practice of abortion is merely a matter of the pregnant woman’s body. (2, 3 CONJ)
Therefore, a pregnant woman has the right to choose abortion. (1, 4 MP)
This is a logically valid argument by the deductive rules of logic called conjunction and modus ponens. If the premises are true, the conclusion follows logically. The premises are (1), (2), and (3). To refute this argument, one must show that at least one of the premises is false or that the argument contains a fallacy.
The opponent of abortion normally denies (2) and (3). Regarding (2), the opponent can argue that the right to do whatever one chooses with one’s body is not unlimited. One cannot use one’s body to harm another human being. Regarding (3), the opponent  can argue that (3) presupposes that the human fetus is merely a body part of the pregnant woman. But this is plausibly false. The fetus is an independent life growing inside the pregnant woman, not a body part of the woman like an arm, heart, or lung. If the opponent’s objections to (2) and/or (3) are correct, then the argument for abortion fails.
The abortion opponent can provide the following argument against abortion:
If it is morally wrong to deliberately take the life of an innocent human being without that being’s consent, and if a human fetus growing in a human female is an innocent human being that does not consent, it is morally wrong to deliberately take the life of a human fetus.
It is morally wrong to deliberately take the life of an innocent human being without that being’s consent.
A human fetus growing in a human female is an innocent human being who does not consent.
Therefore, it is morally wrong to deliberately take the life of an innocent human being without that being’s consent, and a human fetus growing in a human female is an innocent human being who does not consent. (2, 3 CONJ)
Therefore, it is morally wrong to deliberately take the life of a human fetus. (1, 4 MP)
If abortion is the deliberate taking of a human fetus’s life,  abortion is morally wrong.
Abortion is by definition the deliberate taking of a human fetus’s life.
Therefore, abortion is morally wrong. (6, 7 MP)
This is also a logically valid argument by conjunction and modus ponens. Thus, if the premises are true, the conclusion is true. The abortion rights opponent can provide reasons for thinking the premises are true. For example, given the intrinsic value of human life and the inviolable right to life that human beings possess, premise (2) is true. Given that a fetus growing in a human female is itself  biologically human, and given that the fetus is innocent and cannot consent, premise (3) is true. And abortion is by definition the deliberate taking of a fetus’s life. Thus, premise (7) is true and the conclusion follows logically: abortion is morally wrong.
To refute this argument, the supporter of the right to choose abortion must show that at least one of the premises is false. Premise (7) is true by definition. This means that the supporter of abortion rights must argue (a) that it is not morally wrong to deliberately kill an innocent human being without that being’s consent; (b) that a fetus growing inside a human female is not biologically human; (c) that if the fetus is human, the fetus is not innocent; (d) that the fetus is not an independent entity but merely part of the pregnant woman’s body; or (e) that the fetus provides consent. If the supporter of the right to choose abortion can show that one or more of the premises is false, the argument against abortion rights fails.
nstructions
How valid are ethical arguments around abortion?
Write a paper that answers this question, defending your evaluation with cogent moral reasoning and supporting your view with ethical theories or moral principles you deem most relevant to the issue. You will evaluate the following:
Argument for Abortion
If women have an unlimited right to choose what to do with their own bodies, and if the practice of abortion is merely a matter of the pregnant woman’s body, a pregnant woman has the right to choose abortion.
Women have an unlimited right to choose what to do with their own bodies.
The practice of abortion is merely a matter of the pregnant woman’s body.
Therefore, women have an unlimited right to choose what to do with their own bodies and the practice of abortion is merely a matter of the pregnant woman’s body.
Therefore, a pregnant woman has the right to choose abortion.
Argument Against Abortion
If it is morally wrong to deliberately take the life of an innocent human being without that being’s consent, and if a human fetus growing in a human female is an innocent human being who does not consent, it is morally wrong to deliberately take the life of a human fetus.
It is morally wrong to deliberately take the life of an innocent human being without that being’s consent.
A human fetus growing in a human female is an innocent human being who does not consent.
Therefore, it is morally wrong to deliberately take the life of an innocent human being without that being’s consent, and a human fetus growing in a human female is an innocent human being who does not consent.
Therefore, it is morally wrong to deliberately take the life of a human fetus.
If abortion is the deliberate taking of a human fetus’s life, then abortion is morally wrong.
Abortion is by definition the deliberate taking of a human fetus’s life.
Therefore, abortion is morally wrong.
In your paper, address the following:
In one paragraph, evaluate the reasoning behind the argument for abortion by raising and answering two substantive objections to it.
In one paragraph, evaluate the reasoning behind the argument against abortion by raising and answering two substantive objections to it.
Write a one-page conclusion of the argument you think is better and explain why you think so.
Submission Requirements
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting guidelines.
Length: 2 typed, double-spaced pages.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Ch 16 on Free Speech is mostly about campus politics. There is a lot in it. The

by | Nov 19, 2021 | Philosophy : Ethics

Ch 16 on Free Speech is mostly about campus politics. There is a lot in it. The four articles at the end of the chapter are especially interesting.
You should write about the material of the chapter. Address at least one of the Ethical Dilemmas.
At the end of the assignment discuss in the separate short paragraph.  in your own words what is your understanding of free speech

If you have not done so, be sure to read the Case Analysis Structure Overview. I

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If you have not done so, be sure to read the Case Analysis Structure Overview.
In this case analysis you have five tasks:
Give a clear and concise explanation of the case at hand.
Give a thorough, philosophical exegesis of the relevant aspects of Walzer’s and Murray’s arguments. (Click here for some tips on how to do a successful exegesis.)
Present an argument applying the relevant philosophers to the case at hand. This should include an argument justifying who each philosopher would give the welfare to and why.
Present an argument explaining why one of the philosophers can be viewed as offering a more successful solution to the case at hand.
In no more than one paragraph, explain what solution you would propose for Rebecca and Jimmy.
Case
Consider Rebecca, a single mother of 4 who has been a long-term welfare recipient.  Rebecca is a weekend meth user who often spends her money on meth.  However, without her welfare money, her children would not have any food or medical treatment and would most likely be placed in foster homes where their lives would go worse than they currently are. Rebecca’s yearly welfare application is due.
Now consider Jimmy, a veteran of both Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom.  During the battle, Jimmy was wounded and now suffers from some moderate physical disability and post-traumatic stress.  Sadly, although Jimmy tried to find a job, there weren’t many systems in place to help him re-integrate or work through his issues.  Each day Jimmy begs for money at his local off-ramp.  Through no fault of his own, Jimmy has fallen through the proverbial cracks. Jimmy applies for welfare.
Options
You are the welfare overseer.  At most one person can get welfare. You can make ONE of the following three decisions:
Give the welfare only to Rebecca
Give the welfare only Jimmy
Don’t give any welfare
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