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Summer 2008: Syllabus 

Reading Assignments   Writing Assignment Due Dates  

Final Exam Questions (Summer 2007) -- For sample purposes 

For my Expectations: look at the box on the left

Sample FAILING essay   Sample "A" essay 
Related Links 
Basic framework: Four fundamental principles 
Here is the ALS website that Jim Witcher was viewing
Frequently-Asked-Questions about practices Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon 
A glossary of terminology in medical ethics 
Website with Supreme Court cases about euthanasia
Outline of Arnold & Lidz on INFORMED CONSENT 
Outline of Onora O'Neill on AUTONOMY & TRUST 
Standard Code of Ethics for Pharmacists 
Adolescents as decision makers: Key Issues 
Polio in Minnesota: When religion directs health care 
Abortion: comparison of two positions (my outline) 
Statistics on abortion in the U.S. 
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (CDC website)
What did Roe v. Wade establish? 
Experimentation: The Belmont Report (1979) (U.S. gov't website)
Experimentation: The case against animal rights  
Do dogs lack sufficient sense-of-a-life to have moral standing? 
Who lacks health insurance? (Rand Institution analysis) 
John Rawls on Justice 
Information about organ donations (U.S. gov't website)
Should organ sales be allowed? Two outlines 
"Donating" plasma & Book chapter on the same topic 
Related Links in Ethical Theory:
Santa Clara University Website on Morals & Medicine 
Multiple resources on every major ethical theory 
(University of San Diego)
A summary of Aristotle's ethics (Stanford Encyclopedia)
Kant's Ethics (University of San Diego)
J. S. Mill advocates hedonistic rule consequentialism 
A basic comparison of utilitarianism and Kantianism  
John Stuart Mill: 
Introduction to his life and his writings 
J. S. Mill as a rule utilitarian  Online Mill reading 
J. S. Mill advocates hedonistic rule consequentialism 
Natural law as the basis for morality   and a summary of key ideas 
What do you want to know about stem cell research? 

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