Students will watch all the videos posted in three different weeks, and write “video critiques” due by the end of the sixth week. Students are to choose “three topics” which may coincide with three different video segments or sections from all the videos posted throughout the three weeks. Then, the student will write his/her own critique per video topic, thereby making the total of three separate critiques (1500 words minimum in length).
1. Ethical Issues in Health Care Reform
Ezekiel Emanuel is one of America’s leading bioethicists as well as a key figure in the national debate on health care. Professor and vice provost for global initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania, he served in the Obama Administration as the Special Advisor for Health Policy to the Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. Emanuel discusses the pressing issues facing US health care today, from access to insurance to the overall cost of American medicine.
“Ezekiel Emanuel: Ethics of Healthcare” (1:03:04) (Links to an external site. Dec 19, 2012
2. For “Physician Assisted Suicide Law”
Mickey MacIntyre and Kelly Buckland talked about laws in several states allowing medical professionals to assist patients who choose to end their lives when faced with a terminal disease.
“Physician Assisted Suicide Laws” (45:07) August 27, 2015
3. Contra “Physician Assisted Suicide Law”
Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila gives the presentation to the Denver Guild of the Catholic Medical Association. He argues that what the patient wants and needs in a deeper sense is not just his or her autonomous right to choose on his or her own death, but assistance and counseling to find together a meaning of life which includes suffering in the patient’s end stage.
“Suffering with Faith: The Antidote to Physician Assisted Suicide” (30:50) (Links to an external site.)
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This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeDescription of criterionBasic Requirements (20%) Student fulfills the following requirements: 1) minimum page-length requirement, 2) all questions to be answered, 3) the inclusion of first-hand/second-hand experience (if relevant). Though this is an entry-level college course, appropriate use of citation is required: APA, Chicago Manual Style, or MLA is accepted. Please make sure that you fully understand the chosen citation style so that your grade not negatively affected. NOTE: CITATIONS TO WIKIPEDIA WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED CITED AND WILL BE DOWN GRADED!!
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