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Institute Activities Fall and Spring August 2002- May
2003
Consultations for Students and Faculty via the web site
and face to face interactions.
Brad Stocker and Clifford Young, faculty from the
Kendall Campus, were sponsored to attend a conference entitled Conference on
Philosophical Issues in Ethics Across the Curriculum at the University of
Florida Jan 30-Feb 3, 2002. Both
faculty members presented a workshop at the Kendall Campus entitled Teaching
Ethics in a Multicultural Environment on 11/20/02. The workshop objectives were developed by Eric Weaver,
another sponsored faculty member from MCC.
The director served as a member of the College-Wide
Screening Committee for Philosophy faculty positions..
The faculty will be responsible for teaching The Critical Thinking
and Ethics Course, required for all Allied Health and Nursing Students.
The Ethics Teaching Primer is reaching its final stage.
All of the slides are completed.
Dr. Kass piloted the primer in her Dental Hygiene class.
Drs. Aronovitz and Petrozella attended the FIPSE
conference in Washington, DC.
The Institute sponsored one of the concurrent sessions
at Miami-Dade Community College’s Professional Development Day, March 6,
2003. This session, entitled
Ethical Dimensions of Human Cloning, was presented by Mark Neunder and Allen
McPhee. They philosophy faculty and Institute’s Advisory Committee
members. CE’s were provided.
The Institute sponsored the following workshops in
conjunction with Student Life and College Training and Development.
OSHA & HIV/AIDS 2003 and
Beyond 2/10/03
Curriculum Issues: Bio/Chem
Terrorism 3/10/03
Institute Director classroom visitations were made
during the Fall Term and are scheduled for the Spring Term 2002-2. The Fall
term visitations included some of the HSC courses, three clinical nursing
classes and all the nursing leadership classes.
All the nursing leadership classes and some HSC classes
are scheduled for the Spring. It
is hoped that at the conclusion of the grant the faculty will continue to
focus some of their class time on ethics and use the Institute as a
resource.
Director attended the
Honor’s College Student Meeting, (3/10/03) to acquaint students with the
Institute and offer to serve as a faculty resource.
Future Workshops:
Integration of End of Life Care into the Health Care Curriculums 5/19/03
Hospice and Ethics (date to be determined)
Ethics 4 Everyone Eric Harvey ordered by School of Nursing.
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The
Institute for Ethics In Health Care
Presents:
A
Primer for Teaching Health Care
Ethics Using A
Multicultural/Interdisciplinary
Approach
Ethics education has been infused in
each of the Allied Health Technologies
Programs although the extent of that
education has varied.
To help support faculty with
their delivery of ethics instruction, a
group of representatives from the
School of Allied Health of the Medical
Campus of Miami-Dade Community College have been working on a
two-part project
that will serve as a
multidiscipline approach to ethics education.
One group of faculty members are in the process of
designing a PowerPoint
(Ethics Primer) presentation that
professors can
use as a foundation for instruction
and/or students can use as
a
self-instructional tool. The second
group of
faculty has designed several case
studies
that highlight particular
ethical dilemmas within a variety of
health
professions. The participants
represented the following programs:
veterinary technology, health
information
management, respiratory therapy, dental hygiene and medial laboratory technology.
The Dental Hygiene Program used the
case study about a client with HIV that was developed
through the FIPSE grant.
Fifty dental
hygiene students were given the case
and asked to answer
each step as they moved
through the case study.
The students
were instructed to avail themselves of
whatever outside
resources they
researched to support their responses.
The reaction from the students was overwhelmingly positive.
They
thought the exercise was extremely
educational and thought
provoking. In fact, several
students
discussed it with their peers from the
previous class and they inquired
as to why they didn’t get that same
opportunity the year before when they
took
the class.
NEED HELP IN TEACHING
CLONING?
CNN Cloning presentation:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/
02/27/bush.human.cloning/index.html
Dolly dies:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/
02/14/cloned.dolly.dies/index.html
Copy cat:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/0
1/21/cloned.cat.ap/index.html
Clonaid hearing:
http://www.intellnet.org/news/2003/01/29/15981-1.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/americas/
01/23/clonaid.claim/index.html
Consequentialism: Whether an
action is right or wrong is solely
determined by the overall value of
its consequences. An action
cannot be wrong if it has the best
consequences.
All
the likely consequences of
cloning would have to be
assessed. In other words, a
cost/benefit analysis of cloning for society would be done.
Deontology:
Whether an
action is right or wrong is NOT
solely determined by the
overall value of its consequences, but also,
or primarily, by the intrinsic features of the
action. An action could still be wrong even
if it has the best consequences.
Rights and obligations are
often invoked by this theory. For
example,
a deontologist may
examine whether any moral rights are
violated in either permitting or
prohibiting the cloning
of humans.
Cloning
humans - for
and against
Printed with permission from
Mark Neunder, M-DCC
While there are strong
emotional
reactions to cloning human beings there are also good arguments
to be made both for
and against and these should be
use dot inform our
emotion
reaction.
For:
- Would be used to counter
infertility and or genetic disease.
(Robertson JA1)
- It is little different from the birth of
identical
twins. (Robertson JA1)
- What is important is how a child
is treated after
birth. (Robertson
JA1)
- Preferable to donor eggs and/or
perm for the infertile.
- It meets the deep human need to reproduce
somehow.
- as of May 2001, it may be that t
he survival rate of embryos (even in IVF) will rise to 75%
(Beebe & Wheeler 3)
- a source of genetically identical
body parts for transplant
treatment of injured individuals.
(this is an argument for
therapy
not cloning)
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