Biomedical ethics Hare and Kukla reading
1. Describe the method of specification and how it is used to allow Beauchamp’s four principles to justify particular, concrete obligations.
2. Explain the difference between a medical argument against giving livers to former alcoholics and a moral argument against giving livers to former alcoholics.
3. State a situation where the paternalistic model of the physician-patient relationship should be the best way to understand the relationship.
4. Explain how Kukla’s institutional definition of health is meant to navigate between the problems posed by the scientistic definition of health and the problems posed by the social constructionist definition of health.
5. Give an example of a health condition that you could both plausibly argue is a disease and plausibly argue is not a disease.
