Ethics
Ethics Around the Globe:Project for Health Care students
Review the scenario below. Throughout the course, you will be referring to this scenario, coming up with an appropriate solution, and reflecting on your thinking process.
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Your 82-year-old patient is in kidney failure and requires hemodialysis but this sort of medical intervention goes against her religious beliefs. Without this treatment she will certainly die. With the treatment she can expect to live a relatively normal life for years to come. She has no other diseases or conditions.
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you will consider possible solutions based on different ethical perspectives.
- What would someone do from the perspective of Aristotle’s virtue based ethics? Explain why.
- What would someone do from the Buddhist ethical perspective? Explain why.
- What would you do in this situation? Why?
Your assignment should be 1-2 pages in APA format.
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According to Aristotle ethics, every activity comes with a final cause, which is the good it aims. There is an ultimate good which every activity of human beings ultimately aims which is…
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