Bioethics 2020: Recent Episodes
Vadim Chaly
What is beneficence?
What is the difference between obligatory and ideal beneficence?
What is the difference between general and specific beneficence?
What is paternalism, and why is it problematic in health care?
Define justice.
What is distributive justice?
What are the formal and material principles of justice?
Explain utilitarian justice.
Explain libertarian justice.
Explain egalitarian justice.
Explain communitarian justice.
What is justice in the framework of capability theory?
What is justice in the framework of well-being theory?
Who are the participants of the healthcare system?
What are the levels of health care?
What are the mechanisms for financing health care?
How do values and interests differ?
What is the difference between means and ends?
Explain humanity as the “end in itself”.
Explain what is meant by: a) freedom, b) dignity, c) privacy.
How are freedom, dignity and privacy related?
What are the four principles of bioethics?
What is autonomy?
What does it mean “to respect autonomy’?
What is “harm”?
What is nonmaleficence?
What does it mean in medical contexts “to abstain from causing harm to others”?
What is the relation between nonmaleficence and beneficence?
Explain how the principle of nonmaleficence observed in nontreatment decisions.
Explain the “killing-letting die” controversy.
This is the first lecture in the Bioethics course, delivered @IKBFU in the winter semester 2020.