Collaborative Learning Community: Analysis of an Ethical Dilemma

In your CLC group, select one of the following three options and view the video related to your chosen topic (a description of each is provided along with a link to access the electronic media):

Dilemma 1: Embryo Harvesting and Freezing/Genetic Manipulation (Posthumous Conception Case)
Ethical issues related to case: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIenB7qgIVk
Washington Post article of Karen Capato Case: http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-03-19/politics/35450022_1_karen-capato-robert-capato-survivor-benefitsUS
Supreme Court (2011) Ruling on Capato Case: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-159.pdf
Description: Eighteen months after her husband, Robert Capato, died of cancer, respondent Karen Capato gave birth to twins conceived through in-vitro fertilization using her husband’s frozen sperm. Should technology be used to create live posthumously?

Dilemma 2: Marketing of Medical / Pharmaceutical Products
Holding Back the Years? The Race to Slow the Aging Process http://library.gcu.edu:2048/login?url=http://digital.films.com.library.gcu.edu:2048/PortalPlaylists.aspx?aid=12129&xtid=36189
While medical and paramedical industries have developed products to address a wide variety of conditions related to aging, there is growing concern from consumer groups and the medical community regarding current marketing practices about the overuse of prescription and non-prescription drugs and other treatments that provide limited or no medical benefit. Older or aging patients often fall prey to marketing gimmicks for treatments that fail to produce the stated results. The industry, however, argues that these treatments are revolutionary in relieving suffering.
Consider the ethical dilemmas of this case. What are the possible ethical dilemmas and implications?

Dilemma 3: Voluntary/Assisted Euthanasia
Confronting Death: Who Chooses? Who Controls? A Dialogue between Dax Cowart and Robert Burt http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/706/

The Terry Schiavo Documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cki55BM42kw
This is a multi-part assignment spanning Topics 4 and 5 in the course.

Part One is a group assignment. Group members will select one of the dilemmas listed above and write a 750-1,000-word paper. Please review the full paper criteria listed in the assignment description in LoudCloud.

Part Two is an individual assignment in which students will conduct an interview about the ethical dilemma with a hospital administrator, a spiritual leader, a health care colleague, and a neighbor/friend. Although the work is done individually, the interview responses are used in Part Three. Students should discuss within their CLC group to determine who will be responsible for interviewing the hospital administrator, the spiritual leader, the health care colleague, and the neighbor/friend. Please review the full interview criteria listed in the assignment description in LoudCloud.

Part Three is the culminating submission for the multi-part assignment. The group will write a 750-1,000-word paper with a resolution to the ethical dilemma. The paper will incorporate interview responses from the individual work done in Part II and the group’s research. Please review the full paper criteria listed in the assignment description in LoudCloud.

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