Health, Ethics and Law HS2041

Here are the instructions for the assessment,

This major essay requires you to:

CHOOSE ONE of the questions listed below

NOTE: ESSAY TOPIC AND PRESENTATION TOPIC MUST BE DIFFERENT

You must choose an essay topic that is different to the one chosen for your presentation. For example, if your presentation is on euthanasia, then you should not complete your essay on euthanasia.

USE notes, text book and any additional weekly readings as a starting point, RESEARCH relevant literature, using a minimum of 8 sources to support your analysis and argument, including your textbook (suggested references are also provided in the additional reading list section of this subject outline).

CHOOSE:

Question 1:

Choose a controversial health care issue from the list below then respond to the discussion points. You may also choose a controversial issue of your own choice, with approval from your tutor.

List of Topics:

Euthanasia

Abortion

Assisted Reproductive Technology

Surrogacy

Organ donation and transplantation

Stem cell research

Post-mortem donation of sperm

Foetal gender testing

Withdrawal of life-support

Biomedical research involving animals Human clinical trials in drug testing

Pharmaceutical sponsorship of medical research.

Pesticide spraying

Genetically Modified Crops

Fluoridation of water supplies.

Vaccination vacc

Codex legislation

Mandatory notification in child protection

The use of mercury amalgam in dental practice

Nuclear medicine

Nanotechnology

Sex-change operations

Designer babies

1. Identify the key ethical and legal ques relevant to this topic and discuss the relationship between them. Your discussion should include arguments "for" and "against".

2. In the course of your discussion, you should refer to the relevant legislation and Australian case law.

3. In the course of your discussion, you may make use of a framework/model for ethical decision- making, but this is not mandatory.

4. In the course of your discussion, you should refer to at least two theoretical perspectives on ethics. Indicate whether these perspectives were useful or not in determining your final ethical position.

OR

Question 2:

All individuals do not experience equal access the discussion points. to health care. Select one of the groups listed below the respond to

List of Groups:

- Aged Persons

Persons with Disability

Migrants

People with Mental Illness

Prisoners

Anti-Vaxers

Individuals held in mandatory detention

Individuals living in poverty

People from the LGBT community

Individuals experiencing an illness which may be contested by some practitioners (e.g. chronic fatigue syndrome, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, Lyme disease, Autistic Spectrum Disorders)

1. Identify the key barriers to equal health care

2. Discuss the ethical and legal issues raised by these barriers to health care, indicating how these barriers have occurred. Remember to include b both ethical and legal issues and comment on the relationship between them.
   
   

Include in your discussion the rights of the group you have chosen to explore.

3. Propose an ethical position, with related strategies, to address these difficulties. . Include in your discussion the reasons why you believe that previous strategies may have failed. 4
   
   
4. Address the current government's health initiatives and comment on the ethics and practicality of these 'reforms' and any bearing they may have on your selected group.
   
   
5. In your discussion you should refer to at least two theoretical perspectives perspective was useful or not in determining your final ethical position. ethics. Indicate whether each

OR

Question 3:

Negligence is a key concern for alternative/complementary health care practitioners, conventional medical practitioners and those practising integrative medicine.

1. Choose one of the following categories of health practitioner and consider the key areas of risk in terms of negligence which may be pertinent to that group: biomedical practitioners, or complementary/alternative practitioners, or- medical practitioners practising integrative medicine

2. In doing so, outline tort of negligence and the main elements required to claim negligence and comment on any specific risks for the group you have chosen.

3. Include in your discussion recent legislative changes (NSW Civil Liability Act 2002 and amendments) and the debate in relation to need for reform of this recent legislation

4. Include in your discussion your own critical assessment of the current legislation i.e. do you think it is ethical? Do you think that any other systems are better worse? Refer to at least one ethical perspective in the discussion of your position.