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Elliot Dorf background
Conservative Jewish
Elliot Dorf Values
body is neutral and good when used in following the covenant
body belongs to god therefore healthcare is a duty to care for and heal what is His
The duty of a physician comes from God's direction, not from an oath
Gilbert Meilaender POV
Lutheran
Gilbert Meilaender Values
Tensions in christian thought (paradox)
- trinity, community vs. individual, free will but governed
Bible values community and individual, however emphasis on the individual bc community doesn't
dictate one's own relationship with God
still must serve community i.e. healthcare, tension doesn't need to be resloved.
Edmund Pellegrino Values
- Founded center for clinical bioethics.
- The internal, intrinsic good of medicine is very negatively impacted by marketing industry.
- Doctor patient relationship is unequal, patient is vulnerable.
- Medicine has a monopoly of the industry and information, and on regulation inherently.
- Moral responsibility because of this monopoly and privilege
- Medicine aș a moral community
Emilie Townes POV
- Baptist ethicist
Emilie Townes Values
Uncovered problems with Tuskeege Syphilis Study
John Evans POV
Sociologist, Sociology of Knowledge
John Evans Values
- Critiques principlism, saying that it simplifies actual moral decision making
- Asks of the social conditions that made an ethical principle acceptable to help ethicists understand
implications of ideas
- Become more concerned about principles and rules than the right decision
Beauchamp and Childress
- Principlism
- Quaker deontologist x consequentialist
- Wrote a system for bioethics using the principles of the Belmont report
, - Common morality of everyone despite faith background
Adam Schulman Values
Outlines the debate and historical overview of Human Dignity
Gene Outka Values
Criticizes measures of Just distribution, Basic need is the most accepted, merit is most alarming
Five Pillars of Islam
Profession of faith, prayer, alms, fasting, and pilgrimage
Stoicism
Universal, logos Minds are tied to divine reason, so everyone has respected dignity
Link between human and divine
Egalitarian
Roman Catholicism
- Jesus is a healer, live in Jesus's image
- Caring for the sick is an essential work of mercy.
- Moral reflection is the guide for flourishing life and decision making, but this must be based in
tradition
- Imago Dei
Natural Law
- Human nature is fundamentally good as created by God
- All existing things try to preserve themselves.
Scripture
- Clarified reason darkened from sin, finds teaching and authority needed to do so
Tradition- Roman Catholic
- Theological reflection helps people interpret natural law and scripture
Deontology
judges the morality of an action based on the action's adherence to rules.
Rules are inviable
Means rather than Ends
Consequentialism
determines the level of goodness or evil from the effect or result of an act
ends rather than means
Utility
Utility
do the greatest good for the greatest number is required