Case Study Assignment – Choose Your Own Biomedical Ethics Case
Bauer – Bioethics
1. Case Study Paper – Monday, Nov. 28th, 11:59pm
Length: approx. 1000-1500 words
2. Case Study Presentation – Dec. 6th and 8th
A 7 or so min. presentation, including a brief description of your case, a few key ethical issues within the case, and your conclusion. A brief discussion may follow.
Case Study Paper
Submission: 1) Submit your case study paper under Assignments on Blackboard. 2) Also, please post a link to your case, if you found it online, in the discussion forum for this assignment on Blackboard. If you developed the case, post a brief summary of the case in the discussion forum.
In this assignment, choose a case in biomedical ethics and analyze it by discussing a couple of important ethical concepts that are relevant to the case. Then, say what you believe would be ethically right in the case, given your analysis.
In this assignment:
What are the important ethical issues in the case you have chosen?
Given the ethical analysis above, what is ethically right in your case? What should be done? Why? If you cannot take a side, what makes the ethical issues so hard?
