Introduction to Bioethics - GeorgetownX - PHLX101-01

Do More 1. According to Professor Kukla, a transaction can be exploitative even if it benefits both parties. Exploitative transactions are ones where an imbalance of power between two parties allows the more powerful...
to benefit from the other having a set of options that is worse than she deserves. Looking back on your own life, are there transactions you can recall where you were on either side (with more power or with less) that felt problematic in that way? 2...

on this unit. 1. Have you ever objected to something based on your conscience? Was it easy or hard to do? What reaction did you experience? 2. Describe a situation in which you struggled over whether you were being complicit with another's wrong action. 3...
. If you have helped to care for an older person or helped to raise a child, think about circumstances in which you had to help support or protect the autonomy of that person. How did you do so -- for example, allowing them the choice of the foods they ate...

Do More 1. What do you think is the strongest argument for allowing physicians to assist patients in hastening their deaths? What do you think is the strongest argument against doing so? 2. Have you had experience...
euthanasia. How do they frame the issue? 4. Watch one of the following award-winning movies and discuss: 1 ew Age (1994) ? Judy Davis, Peter Weller (dir. Michael Tolkin). The Sea Inside (2004) ? Javier Bardem (dir. Alejandro Amenabar). Million Dollar Baby...

Reflection questions 1. Think of disability as a spectrum from none to strong. What do you consider to be your greatest physical disability? Cognitive disability? Social disability? 2. How many people using mobility...
assistance (wheelchairs, canes, crutches, etc.) do you estimate you see in a given week? Look up the statistics online for your country (or state, province, or city) and estimate how many in your community use mobility assistance. 3. Think back to a time...

Reflection questions 1. Think of disability as a spectrum from none to strong. What do you consider to be your greatest physical disability? Cognitive disability? Social disability? 2. How many people using mobility...
assistance (wheelchairs, canes, crutches, etc.) do you estimate you see in a given week? Look up the statistics online for your country (or state, province, or city) and estimate how many in your community use mobility assistance. 3. Think back to a time...

Do More WHERE DOES YOUR FOOD COME FROM? Our food often travels long distances before it ever reaches our plate. The infographic below shows typical "food miles" traveled to the UK for a variety of products. Image from...

Introduction to Bioethics - GeorgetownX - PHLX101-01

Introduction to Bioethics - GeorgetownX - PHLX101-01

Do More � . What informs your personal opinion about abortion? What values,beliefs, or experiences do you draw upon as the foundation for your opinion? Make a list of them. Ask a discussion partner or friend this same...
do you think you share, or hold different, opinions? � . What do you wish you knew more about or understood better regarding the question of abortion? � . Write down a description, as best you can, of the single most important conviction you have...