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Bioethical Issues
Students will learn about bioethical issues through research on the Internet.
Objectives
- Discuss bioethical issues related to health care
- Analyze and evaluate the implications of medical ethics
Procedure
- Students examine bioethical issues. Organ transplant waiting lists are examined as an example of the distribution of scarce medical resources.
- Students define instructive advance directives such as living wills and proxy advanced directives.
- Students examine active, passive, voluntary, involuntary, and non-voluntary euthanasia and physician assisted suicide.
- Students define artificial nutrition and hydration, especially in the case of patients in a persistent vegetative state.
- Students read about defective newborns and the legal and ethical questions that arise in relation to them.
Sunshine State Standards
- SC.H.1.4.7
- SC.H.3.4.2
- SC.H.3.4.3
- LA.D.1.4.2
- LA.D.2.4.1
- HE.A.2.4.1
NETS Profiles for Technology Literate Students
- Make informed choices among technology systems, resources, and services.
- Demonstrate and advocate for legal and ethical behaviors among peers, family, and community regarding the use of technology and information.
- Use technology tools and resources for managing and communicating personal/professional information (e.g., finances, schedules, addresses, purchases, correspondence).
- Select and apply technology tools for research, information analysis, problem solving, and decision making in content learning.
Materials
- Computers
- Internet access
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