Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Part I: FOUNDATIONS:
A. Medical Limits:
1. Deciding who is the subject of Medical action;
2. Abortion: a. Notes from the Judeo/Christian Tradition;
b. Women’s right to decide;
c. Moment of hominisation: state of the question;
d. Controversial questions: rape & incest;
-"wrongful life".
3. Triage and the limit to Extending care;
4. Human experimentation;
F. Surgical Interventions:
1. Surgery to safeguard life and health;
2. Cosmetic Surgery;
3. Prophylactic and unnecessary surgery;
4. Ghost surgery;
"The Church guards the heritage of God's Word and draws from it
religious and moral principles, without always having at hand the
solution, to particular problems. She desires thereby to add the
light of revealed truth to mankind's store of experience, so that
the path which humanity has taken in recent times will not be a
dark one."
Course Assignments
TERM ONE:
TERM Two:
1. Reading Log: 30 ;
2. Interview: 10;
3. Two Term Tests: 30x2= 60;
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100
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6. The interview will be in term two, and the students will be sent out two
by two to a knowledgable couple to discuss some to the material in the
course. This is a most fruitful and enjoyable assignment!