Ethics and Values

WELCOME!

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Introducing the unit
Learning Objectives:
By the time you have completed this 15-credit unit you will be able to:

1. Identify your own values and the key factors and processes that have shaped them.
2. Recognise the major philosophical theories for talking about and analysing ethical decisions
in your own and others' lives.
3. Consider how personal and professional values inform the ethical frameworks that guide
professional practice.
4. Express your ideas and communicate different perspectives.

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Introducing the unit
Moodle Teams
Summary of sessions Online Lectures
Detailed information on assessment Microsoft Teams
Submission portal for completed assignments Conundrums
Case studies

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Ethics and Values
WHAT IS ETHICS AND WHY STUDY IT?

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What is ethics and why study it?

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Quick questionnaire
1. How confident are you that you can navigate difficult ethical decisions? 

Very
Somewhat
Not

[write your response in the chat bar but don’t send it until I tell you]

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Quick questionnaire
2. How confident are you that you can identify when you’re facing an ethical issue or decision? 
 
Very
Somewhat
Not

[write your response in the chat bar but don’t send it until I tell you]

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Quick questionnaire
3. Are you aware of the belief systems, values, principles and other influences that affect your
decisions? 
 
Very
Somewhat
Not

[write your response in the chat bar but don’t send it until I tell you]

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Why ethics and values?

Everyone involved in health care should have a fundamental concern with issues

of values and ethics.

Without this concern we cannot consider ourselves as engaged in health care at

all.

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 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4657920.stm

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 https://inews.co.uk/news/health/assisted-dying-debate-bmj-doctors-majority-support/

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2014/07/06/majority-public-would-consider-assisted-dying-some

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“Why do I need to think about this? I might work in health social care, but I’m never likely to be
in a situation where a patient is asking me to help them die. And if it did happen, I’d simply go to
someone in authority and tell them what had happened. They would decide what to do.”

What sort of problems do think there might be with this kind of response?

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 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2006/nov/19/health.medicineandhealth

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Do you think the NHS should pay for obese children and teenagers to have this kind of expensive

treatment?

[write your response in the chat bar but don’t send it until I tell you]

Do you think the value of ‘better living’ is down to the responsibility of the individual? Or does

society hold responsibility for the ‘better living’ of its members?

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We need to examine the values that underpin our actions, and the ethics of those actions

themselves, because they are responses to the task of creating better (or more tolerable) lives –

and these lives are valued, one way or another, by those whose lives they are.

(Duncan 2010: 14)

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