Research assignment: (Moral Dilemma Case analysis) - Choose one of the

topics listed below. In each case scenario, you have to make a choice from a
number of possible actions with compelling ethical reasons. Answer the
questions comprehensively.( 50 points)

Topic 1
What Is Medical Ethics, and Why Is It Important?

Medical ethics involves examining a specific problem, usually a clinical case, and using values, facts, and
logic to decide what the best course of action should be.

What are the basic values, or principles, to decide ethical issues: Explain each

How Medical Values Developed? Discuss comprehensively.

Clinical case:

Doctors Are Unsure About What To Do With "Do Not Resuscitate" Tattoos

Do you have tattoos? Barbed wire on the bicep, little butterfly on the ankle, maybe "No ragrets" on
the back of your head? Whatever it is, we're betting that none of your ink has thrown the entire
medical world into question. That's what happens when doctors discover tattoos reading "Do Not
Resuscitate" on a patient. This gives medical personnel the unenviable task of determining whether
the tattoo is meant as a legally binding life and death order or simply as a bad joke. Don't laugh -- and
not just because it's not funny -- joke DNR tattoos are an actual thing. One guy got the tattoo because
he lost a bet, but fortunately, his paperwork confirmed that he did, in fact, want to live when he was
hospitalized in 2012.

In 2017, a 70-year-old man was admitted to a hospital unconscious, in septic shock, and lacking any
identification. The only thing he had was that pesky DNR tattoo. His doctors had to call in an ethics
consultant, who determined that the tattoo could indeed be interpreted as the patient's genuine
wish. But the issue remains controversial in the exciting world of medical ethics.

A patient's family could theoretically sue a physician who let their loved one die based on some bad
ink, but then, a patient could theoretically wake up and sue once they found out their DNR was
violated. Something to keep in mind before you take out hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical
student loans: You could theoretically be ruined by a dumb joke tattoo.

What are the competing “rights” in this scenario? What is the issue?

What rationalizations might someone make in this situation?

What outside influences might be in play?

Topic 2
LEGAL ETHICS

Why is Ethics Important in Law?

What is Ethical Legal Standards?

What are the basic values, or principles, to decide ethical issues: Explain each

How Legal Ethics Developed? Discuss comprehensively.

Case Analysis: Attorney-Client Privilege Is Great ... Until An Innocent Man Spends Life In Prison
Because Of It

In 1982, Andrew Wilson shot and killed a security guard while robbing a Chicago McDonald's, because
people who have a good sense of risk versus reward don't hold up drive-thrus in the first place.
Fortunately for him, eyewitnesses identified the killer as a man named Alton Logan, who was sentenced
to life in prison. It's not like things totally worked out for Wilson, as he was being held for killing two
police officers in an apparently unrelated incident at the time. But he just didn't need that on top of
everything else, you know?

Now, Wilson had admitted as much to his two lawyers, secure in the knowledge that attorney-client
privilege prevented them from telling anyone. The attorneys attended Logan's sentencing, reasoning
that if the falsely accused man were sentenced to death for the crime, they'd be free to violate privilege
in order to save a man's life. But no such luck. For the first time in history, it was a bad thing that an
innocent man was not sentenced to die.

Wilson died in prison in 2007. His lawyers had at least convinced him to let them disclose what they
knew after his death, and armed with decades-old affidavits, the pair had Logan freed in 2008. By that
point, he had already served almost half his life in prison, so something tells us he didn't send them a
thank-you note.

What are the competing “rights” in this scenario? What is the issue?

What rationalizations might someone make in this situation?

What outside influences might be in play?

Topic3
Social media ethics

How can we use social media safely and responsively?

Why is social media etiquette important?

What social media should not do?

Case scenario:

You are the network administrator for a rather large company. You have a young family and you need
your job to support them. As part of your responsibility as a network administrator is to monitor the
emails for the organization. Usually this just means occasionally checking emails that have been
accidentally blocked by the spam filters.

One day you get a helpdesk request from a staff member asking for an email to get released. Normally
it’s standard procedure except this time the request has come from the wife of a very good friend of
yours. You recognize the name on the helpdesk request so you quickly attend to the problem. As part
of the procedure you need to manually open up the email to ensure that it isn’t spam, so you do and
you discover that it certainly isn’t spam. You find that it’s actually an email to your friend’s wife from
her lover. You scan the rest of the contents of the email and there is no doubt that she has been
having an affair for some time now.

You release the email, but you can’t decide what to do. You’re initial reaction is to call your friend up
and tell him about the email, however you quickly realize that company policy is very strict about
revealing the contents of information coming from the company server .

In any case you know that revealing this information presents great risk, because even if you don’t do
it directly, there is a good chance that the dots will be joined somewhere along the line and you will
be found out. However you feel that by not telling you friend that you are aiding his wife get away
with adultery and this troubles you greatly.

What would you do?

What are the competing “rights” in this scenario? What is the issue?

What rationalizations might someone make in this situation?

What outside influences might be in play? ( moral authorities)

What is journalism ethics?

What are the principles of ethical journalism?

What are the core values of Journalism?

Case study:

You are a reporter on a small town newspaper and are covering a story about plans for a massive new
leisure centre and hotel complex to be built locally.

You sense something is wrong when a local politician becomes an outspoken champion for the
proposal, saying it will be good for business and for the fortunes of the town.

While investigating the story you find that the politician has close business connections with the
owner of the hotel who submitted the planning application and with the developer who has drawn up
the plans.

Two years ago, when the hotel was extended, you and a few of your friends accepted an invitation for
a weekend break including free meals and unlimited fine wine. At the time you felt uneasy about
accepting, but you decided to go ahead anyway and make the most of the free offer.

As soon as you start to ask questions about this proposed new development, both the hotel owner
and the politician remind you of your earlier lapse in editorial judgement. What do you do? Do you:

1. talk to your editor, admit that you accepted hospitality from someone who could be part of an
investigation and leave it to your editor to decide how the story is covered.

2. drop the story in order to protect your newspaper and hope that by keeping quiet and not
asking awkward questions your earlier involvement will not be revealed.- Justify both choices.

What are the competing “rights” in this scenario? What is the issue?

What rationalizations might someone make in this situation?

What outside influences might be in play? ( moral authorities)

What is the meaning of social work ethics?

Why is social work ethics important?

What are social responsibilities?

What are the ethical responsibilities of Social workers to clients?

What are the six core values of the social work profession?

Case scenario:

You are providing relationship counseling for a couple who are working on trust and communication
issues and are considering marriage. For several weeks they have been engaging in communication
and mindfulness skills and seem to be making progress. One day, one of the partners calls you a few
hours before the scheduled session and reports that he is having a secret affair: before starting
counseling with you, he had an impulsive one-time affair several weeks ago when he and his partner
had more doubts about the relationship. He tells you he has no plan to disclose this to his partner
“because things are going so well, and what my partner doesn’t know won’t hurt her…. I just had to
get it off my chest.”

What are the competing “rights” in this scenario? What is the issue?

What rationalizations might someone make in this situation?

What outside influences might be in play?

What would be you course of action?

Goodluck!!!