Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Healthcare

Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Healthcare
1.How should we understand the term person? What implications does your account of personhood have for our treatment of different beings, such as adult human beings, human foetuses and animals?

2.To what extent is telling the truth in healthcare an absolute ethical obligation?

3.How should we understand the notion of acting in a persons best interests? In what ways might this create conflict in health care situations with other ethical considerations?

4.What ethical principles might be applied when considering the use and distribution of scarce resources in health and social care?