Title: Assignment 2 Analyzing Ethical Issues
Course: HCP 0796 Patient Care Technician > Section: Module 5

This assignment assists the student in analyzing ethical as well as moral issues and how these behaviors can affect reputation and credibility while also examining one’s own feelings about difficult issues.

After answering the questions please post by selecting the above title Assignment 2 and attach your file to submit. This assignment is worth 45 points.

Assignment

Answer the following questions to the best of your ability. If you find information from an outside source for your response, please include where you found this information (this helps me to know that you didn't copy it from somewhere and that you didn't just make up this information).

1. Is it ever permissible to lie, cheat, steal, or perform some other illegal or unethical act? If so, when and why?
2. Select one of the following topics for this question : euthanasia, cloning, needle exchange programs for drug addicts, using human subjects for research studies, and the death penalty. Debate the pro's and con's of the issue selected and discuss individuals' values, ethics, and consciences affect their opinions.
3. Identify a well-known person whose reputation has been publicly tarnished or destroyed. Discuss what happened and why. Examine the person's values, ethics, and behaviors. What might it take to rebuild his/her reputation and the trust that people had in the person? What can students learn from this experience and apply in their own lives?
4. Identify a public figure who has been mired in a controversy because of moral issues. What actions led to the controversy and how has the public reacted? Share your own perspectives on the issues and examine any differences based on personal morals and values.
5. Research a historical political figure known for his/her character and positive public reputation. What traits and behaviors led to the person's positive reputation? How much was known about the person's private life when he/she was still living? Would that person still be revered today? Why or why not? Have ideas changed with respect to personal privacy and "the public's right to know?" What role do the media and politics play in the public's examination of a person's character and reputation?