Medicine

1. From Chapter 1: Moral Norms (Beauchamp & Childress): Under the “Moral Dilemmas” section on pages 10-11, Beauchamp and Childress offer a short overview of the Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California case (see also endnote 20 on page 28). For this discussion question, you should: (a) highlight which prima facie norms were in conflict in this case; and (b) explain whether and why you think that the majority opinion in this case satisfactorily met Beauchamp and Childress’ six conditions that must be met in order to justify infringing one prima facie norm in order to adhere to another (see pages 22-23 for those six conditions). For more on the Tarasoff v. Regents case, see the following:

2. From Chapter 1: The Way of Medicine (Curlin & Tollefsen): In this chapter, Curlin and Tollefsen argue that “medicine is for health” (pg. 20) and that, “[a]ccording to the Way of Medicine, health is the end or purpose of medicine, the principal goal that medicine seeks, the principal good that is realized internal to medicine’s practice.” (pp. 30-31) For this discussion question, please briefly overview the multifaceted nature of “health” as defended by the authors in the “What Is Health?” section (see pages 24-31).