Using a problem based focus, this subject explores the relationship between current social welfare practice and policy, ethical theory and ethical principles, and the issue of intervention in the lives of vulnerable adults and children. Issues of legal capacity, autonomy, paternalism, coercion and privacy are considered. The subject also examines the ethics of care and concomitant legal duties to care, including good samaritanism.
HD/FL
One session
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
1. Ethical Principles of Autonomy and Beneficence 2. Paternalism and Coercion; Justice and Rights 3. "Am I my parents' or neighbour's keeper?" Obligation, responsibility and the Duty to Care 4. Good Samaritanism 5. Parens Patriae, the State and vulnerable populations 6. Capacity and the limits of acceptable paternalism 7. Privacy and the right to be left alone
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