Bioethics

A course about the ethics of medicine.

Notes

• Proc Eric Mathison
• TA:
  • Zoom OH
• Ethics consultation simulations will require you to record a video to your response of a situtation. This will involve a consolutation example, and you providing a solution, and supporting your solution. More detailed the better. Classic thesis, premises and support Argument structure. Also, find objection and respond to it.
• Oct 10 quiz (10%)
  • A Beauchamp and Childress Four Principles of Biomedical Ethics can be in tension with itself, if it is unclear about what to do
• Ethics consultation simulation (20%)
• Ethics consultation simulation (27%)
• Oral exam (33%) - meet with your TA and you will answer 2/5 discussion-based questions.
  • TA office in KW, will be told exact room
  • Oral exam is 15min per person. 7.5 mins for each question
  • No aids allowed
  • Must bring Tcard
  • Blank paper allowed to jot notes
  • No talking outside the exam room
• Tutorial (10%)
• Drop-in-times Weds 1pm-2pm Thurs 11am-12pm zoom https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/3147121578 passcode 103099

Concepts

Week 1

• Genetic Blindness Thought Experiment
• Confidentiality
• Clinical Ethics
• Research Ethics
• Premise
• Fun Incest Thought Experiment
• Argument
• Vegetarian Cannibal Thought Experiment
• Canadian Medical Association Code of Ethics and Professionalism

Week 2

• Principle
• Dax Pain Thought Experiment
• Patient Rights
• MAID
• Human Rights
• Hippocratic Oath
• Instrumental Goods
• Intrinsic Goods
• Health as Intrinsic Value
• Prima Facie
• Beauchamp and Childress Four Principles of Biomedical Ethics
  • Autonomy
  • Nonmaleficence
    • Principle of Double Effect
  • Beneficence
  • Justice
• Biomedical Tension
• Mary Schloendorff Autonomy Thought Experiment
• Informed Consent
• Paternalism
• Car Wash Thought Experiment
• Jehovah Witness Blood Transfusion
• Body Integrity Identity Disorder
• The Truth About Dentistry
• The Truth About Psychiatry
• Hydroxychloroquine
• Equality
• Fairness
• Lining Up
• Triage Department
• Intellectual Humility
• Virtue
• Cereberal Paulsy Treatment Thought Experiment

Week 3

• Medical Disclosure
• Henrietta Tumor Case
• Dignity
• Therapeutic Privilege
• Delusional Parasitosis Thought Experiment
• Value Judgement
• Placebo
• Nocebo
• Medical Cultural Differences
• Delivery Driver Drunk Sex Thought Experiment
• Private Assisted Dying Thought Experiment
• Confidentiality
• Privacy
• Tarasoff Abuse Thought Experiment
• Duty to Warn
• Covid Patient at Mall Thought Experiment
• Representative Heuristic

Week 4

• Transferring Authority Thought Experiment
• Informed Consent
• Consent Interference
• Antibiotic Resistance

Week 5

• Do Not Resuscitate
• Do Not Resuscitate Thought Experiment
• Substitute Decision Maker
• Substitute Decisions Act
• Advance Directive
• Experiential Interests
• Critical Interests
• Dementia Advanced Directive Thought Experiment
• Dworkin Narriative Arguments
• Organ Transplant Personality Changes
• Embodied Mind Account
• Bodily Independence

Week 6

• Prescriptive Claim
• Descriptive Claim
• Strawman Argument
• Steelman Argument
• Justice
• Lung Cancer Requiring Vaccine Thought Experiment
• Organ
• Organ Distribution
• Paid Organ Donors
• Opt-out Organ Donation
• Amy Friedman
• Military Benefits
• Stop Liver Deaths
• Xeno Transplantation
• Synthetic Meat
• Dialysis
• Cirrhosis
• Legalized Prostitution

Week 7

• Public Health
• Life Improvement
• Pushy Lifeguard
• 80 Thousand Hours
• Polluting Factory Thought Experiment
• The Killing Machine
• Quality Adjusted Life Year
• DALY
• Libertarianism
• Libertarian Paternalism
• Coercive Paternalism
• Mills Harm Principle
• Jessica Flanigan
• Sarah Conly
• Happy Smokers
• Medical Emergency Permissibility

Week 8

• Assisted Dying
• Ventilator Assisted Dying Thought Experiment
• MAID
• Smith and Jones Thought Experiment
• Rachels Assisted Dying Argument
• Younger Cousin Ventilator Assisted Dying Thought Experiment
• Harmful Killing
• The Value of Autonomy Argument
• Carter v Canada
• Grievous And Irremediable Condition
• Terminal Illness Maid Thought Experiment
• Advance Request
• Consistency Argument

Week 9

• Abortion
• Pro Life
• Pro Choice
• Moral Consideration
• Post-Birth vs Pre-Birth Fetus Equivalence
• Premature Birth vs Pre-Birth Fetus Argument
• Judith Jarvis Thomson Argument Defense of Abortion
• Violinist Thought Experiment
• Small House Growing Child Thought Experiment
• Henry Fonda Saving Life Thought Experiment
• Burglar Enter Thought Experiment
• Right to Life
• Don Marquis Fetus Life Argument

Week 10

• Research Ethics
• Minnesota Starvation Experiment
• Clinical Trials
• Biomedical Research Goals
• Untreated Syphilis Experiment
• Research Ethics Board
• Drug Research Thought Experiment
• Equipoise
• Clinical Equipoise
• Deepen Not Broaden
• Male Birth Control Experiment
• Value Judgement
• Therapeutic Misconception
• Eroom’s Law
• Paid Clinical Trial
• White Participant Problem
• Challenge Trial
• Jesse Gensinger Case
• Julian Savulescu Participant Selection Principle