Ideas for an ethics paper on health?

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Hi! I am writing a paper for my ethics class and I want a unique topic to write about from a Catholic perspective. Abortion and euthanasia are good topics but I want something a little more unique. My ethics professor not only has high expectations but she is also a devout Catholic and she loves when people incorporate St.Thomas Aquinas into their work which I have done but I have always fallen short by 0.25 from 100% with her. I really want a topic that will grab her attention and keep it but I also want to be able to link it to philosophy as well. Does anyone have any ideas for me?
 
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Hi! I am writing a paper for my ethics class and I want a unique topic to write about from a Catholic perspective. Abortion and euthanasia are good topics but I want something a little more unique. My ethics professor not only has high expectations but she is also a devout Catholic and she loves when people incorporate St.Thomas Aquinas into their work which I have done but I have always fallen short by 0.25 from 100% with her. I really want a topic that will grab her attention and keep it but I also want to be able to link it to philosophy as well. Does anyone have any ideas for me?
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How about the ethics of contraception?
 
Choose something with a narrow focus that is relevant in the world right now.

You might try, for instance, the ethics of voting in a large democratic state. (Thomas will tell you that monarchy is the best kind of government by the way.)

Or Zika and contraception. (You’ll have lots of material from Thomas available for this.)

Gene-selection is another.
 
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Choose something with a narrow focus that is relevant in the world right now.

You might try, for instance, the ethics of voting in a large democratic state. (Thomas will tell you that monarchy is the best kind of government by the way.)

Or Zika and contraception. (You’ll have lots of material from Thomas available for this.)

Gene-selection is another.
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Those are really good ideas! Thank you this is very helpful :yup:
 
Embryonic Stem Cell Vs Adult Stems in Medicine
The Catholic Bioethic Center should have info
 
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Hi! I am writing a paper for my ethics class and I want a unique topic to write about from a Catholic perspective. Abortion and euthanasia are good topics but I want something a little more unique.
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This may be too broad of an issue, and it might need to be narrowed down, but what the just distribution of resources in a society? I am thinking that the topic of distributism or subsidiarity might be a fresh perspective for your professor.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity
 
confusedgirl said:
Hi! I am writing a paper for my ethics class and I want a unique topic to write about from a Catholic perspective. Abortion and euthanasia are good topics but I want something a little more unique. My ethics professor not only has high expectations but she is also a devout Catholic and she loves when people incorporate St.Thomas Aquinas into their work which I have done but I have always fallen short by 0.25 from 100% with her. I really want a topic that will grab her attention and keep it but I also want to be able to link it to philosophy as well. Does anyone have any ideas for me?
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You could compare secular ethics to religious ethics, contrast as well.
 
Some more narrowly focused, but less dramatic ideas might be:
  1. The occurrence of upper extremity cumulative disorders in machine-driven production lines. There is a lot of resource material on that. Basically, the production demands of a lot of modern industry (especially in meat processing) has resulted in the physical demands of hand labor being driven by the capabilities of machinery rather than by the limits of healthy human endurance. People are “downstream” from mechanization in production lines. It narrows the “rest” part of the “work/rest cycle”. That results in a number of things. One is a buildup of lactic acid that doesn’t have enough time to be metabolized back into the system. Another is increased inflammation, resulting in overgrowth of tissues and conditions like carpal tunnel syndrome, medial and lateral epicondylitis, trigger fingers and thumbs. They’re treatable, but not really curable. One could explore the ethical dimensions of the drive for increasing profits, but also the demand for low-cost convenience food.
  2. The impact of the “well worker effect” on differentials in insurance rates. Employers and insurers in highly demanding work environments have lower health insurance rates than the population at large. That’s because if a worker is really sick, he/she drops out of the labor force, can’t keep up his/her insurance under COBRA, and eventually is dropped from the insurance rolls. That’s the result of provider bidding as much as it is by insurer bidding, because providers will “low ball” reimbursement rates when they know they’re dealing with an employer or insurer who benefits from the 'well worker effect".
  3. Various government programs and the degree to which some selected one or two meet or do not meet the social justice criteria in “Rerum Novarum” or the other Social Encyclicals. Mostly, they don’t. Paradoxically, most “entitlements” don’t, while many business “tax loopholes” do. The reason is that entitlements encourage dependency on government and consequent adoption of government-established ethical principles, while many “tax loopholes” facilitate the acquisition of productive, inheritable assets by individuals and families. A very good example of that is the fact that purchasing breeding cattle is 100% deductible from ordinary income, while the sale of breeding cattle is capital gains, free of taxation below an adjusted gross income of $75,000.00. Sometimes things are not what they seem, and we often get misled into thinking one thing facilitates “social justice”, when the very opposite is true, or that another thing is an “unfair benefit” when it actually does serve social justice as set out in the social encyclicals.
Might not be dramatic, but your teacher will really be surprised, perhaps even floored by some of those things.
 
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