Bioeethics and social justice
Questions 1
1a. What is your response to the different meanings of bioethics and social justice?
1b. Are the distinctions helpful to your understanding of the terms? Why?
Question 2
Dr. ten Have identifies some “bioethical principles which he believes are almost universal.
2a. How do you respond to these trans/cross cultural principles which he identified?
2b. What is your level of agreement?
2c. What would you add or subtract to his universal principles?
2d. Please give your rationale for your selection of universal principles.
Question 3
- Curtis West ties social justice to public health. He is not the only person who says this. Beauchamps (ethicist from Georgetown who is associated with the 4 principles) says that the theory that under girds public health is social justice.
3a. Why do Curtis West and others say this (I know that Curtis West is speaking at the annual APHA meeting)?
