A Valid Crashout
Every once in a while in life, if you look carefully enough, you’ll regret paying attention as life smacks you right upside the head with a dose of reality. ‘Cause you know what, the world kinda sucks. Death...
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Travis Seideman
Medical Ethics Series #9 – Applied Ethics: Deontology
In this article we will address the code from the perspective of a Deontologist. In each sister article released this edition, I will also approach it as a Utilitarian, and a Virtue Ethicist.
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Medical Ethics Series #8 – Applied Ethics: Utilitarianism
In this article we will address the code from the perspective of a Utilitarian. In each sister article released this edition, I will also approach it as a Deontologist, and a Virtue Ethicist.
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Medical Ethics Series #10 – Applied Ethics: Virtue Ethics
In this article we will address the code from the perspective of a Virtue Ethicist. In each sister article released this edition, I will also approach it as a Deontologist, and a Utilitarian.
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Medical Ethics Series #7 – Applied Ethics: Principalism
Welcome back to my Medical Ethics Series for the seventh installment. Unlike the loose fun of the last ones, where we explored what ethical theories might be best, here we will face very real situations, and ask the...
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Medical Ethics Series #6 – Normative Ethics: Virtue Ethics
Welcome back to my Medical Ethics Series for the sixth installment! This is the third part of the Normative Ethics section, an area focused on what rules we should follow. Last time we explored Deontology, and now we...
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Medical Ethics Series #5 – Normative Ethics: Deontology
Welcome back to my Medical Ethics Series for the fifth installment! This is the second part of the Normative Ethics section, an area focused on what rules we should follow. Last time we explored Utilitarianism, and this time...
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Medical Ethics Series #4 – Normative Ethics: Utilitarianism
Welcome back to my Medical Ethics Series for the fourth installment! This is the first part of the Normative Ethics section, where we will be going over Normative ethics, or what rules we should follow. These theories will...
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Medical Ethics Series #3 – Metaethical Theories Part 2
Welcome back to my Medical Ethics Series for the third installment! This is the final part in the metaethics series before we move on to Normative ethics (Utilitarianism, Deontology, etc.). As a reminder, in the first edition we...
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Medical Ethics Series #2 - Metaethical Theories Part 1
Welcome back to my Medical Ethics Series for the second installment! As a reminder, in the first edition we discussed in general terms what metaethics is, touched on the concept of moral authority (why claims on the morality...
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Medical Ethics Series #1 – Laying the Groundwork - Travis Seideman
In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle can be paraphrased as saying “happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”1 Ironic, given that philosophers can be depressed from studying the absurdity of...
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Outpatient Clinic Cartels: The Transition from Doctor to “Health-Dealer”
One day, before going to my CCE, I called their office to ask if my preceptor was in. It took five minutes of explanation for the person to whom I was speaking to understand I was a medical...
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