Story: Andrew Bedner is an American man at the center of bioethical controversy regarding the rights of parents to make medical decisions for children they have allegedly abused
Reasons: Bedner went to trial because he was charged with intentionally injuring his eight week old daughter during a beating. How it relates to healthcare: The child’s injuries proved severe, and Bedner faced a long prison sentence if convicted,but he didn’t face murder charges.As his critically ill daughter,C.B. remained on life support the hospital sought to exclude Bender from decisions regarding from life support. The girl eventually did die, but the case generated considerable public debate and stimulated a controversy among bioethics scholars .
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There are many ethical paradigms through which humans find guidance and justification for their own actions. In the case of contractarianism, citizens of a state are entitled to human rights, considered to be unalienable, and legal rights, which are both protected by the state. As Spinello says, “The problem with most rights-based theories is that they do not provide adequate criteria for resolving practical disputes when rights are in conflict” (14). One case that supports Spinello is the case of Marlise Munoz, a brain-dead pregnant thirty-three year old, who was wrongly kept on life support for nearly two months at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. Misinterpretation of the Texas Advance Directives Act by John Peter Smith Hospital led to the violation of the contractarian paradigm. Although the hospital was following the directive in order to maintain legal immunity for its hospital staff, the rights of the family were violated along with the medical fundamental principle to “first, do no harm.”
In Tim Seibles' poem, The Case, he reviews the problematic situations of how white people are naturally born with an unfair privilege. Throughout the poem, he goes into detail about how colored people become uncomfortable when they realize that their skin color is different. Not only does it affect them in an everyday aspect, but also in emotional ways as well. He starts off with stating how white people are beautiful and continues on with how people enjoy their presence. Then he transitions into how people of color actually feel when they encounter a white person. After, he ends with the accusation of the white people in today's world that are still racist and hateful towards people of color.
Relevant facts and background of the case indicate that, Buck Carrie an 18-year old female and a resident of Virginia State was feebleminded. Similarly, her mother was feebleminded too. Even though not married, Carrie had a feebleminded daughter (Brocato, 2008). Virginia State passed laws in 1924 allowing superintendants of special institutions with conditions that are hereditary and cause imbecility insanity to sterilize these persons. For the sterilization process to continue, the requirement was for superintendents to present to the board of directors a petition, inform the inmate and the inmate’s guardian, and call a hearing to give evidence against and for carrying out the process (Black, 2003). In the case, Dr. Bell carried the proceeding against Ms. Carrie Buck. This was after the death of her first physician during the case pendency. Similarly, Bell pushed fo...
The Dread Scott decision exacerbated the debate over slavery by declaring that blacks cannot be citizens and that Congress does not have the power to prohibit slavery in the territories, which further divided the North and the South. The decision also deeply affected politics, and was one of the causes of the Civil War.
Barbra Huttmann’s purpose in writing her story in A Crime of Compassion is to convince people that no matter their beliefs, it is sometimes more humane to let someone die if they are suffering. This was the case with a cancer patient of hers named Mac. She communicates this directly by saying, “Until there is legislation making it a criminal act to code a patient has requested the right to die, we will all of us risk of the same face as Mac” (Huttmann 422).
“Help, my daughter has stopped breathing!” she cried out entering the emergency room. In Sickened the autobiography written by Julie Gregory shares her abusive childhood to enlighten her readers about Munchausen Syndrome by proxy. With all the attention to protect children from abuse, how can child abuse not be recognized?
It seemed that our opinions aligned in the Cuban case, but not the Schiavo case. When Governor Bush initially stated he would have someone look into the case (p. 196), I did not imagine him intervening at such a great magnitude. This is a delicate issue, and I could easily empathize with Schiavo’s family on this matter. At the same time, Schiavo consciously made the decision to marry her husband, so she may have wanted him to move on and be happy in the event that something happened to her. Furthermore, she may have expressed sentiments to her husband that she would not want to be left in a vegetative state, thereby supporting his reason to remove the feeding tubes. Since these ideas were not a far stretch for my imagination, I thought that it would be more appropriate for a court to grant both sides the opportunity to present their cases and evaluate the cases accordingly. Conversely, I did not think it was appropriate for the Governor to intervene, weighing the case in the family’s favor, without attempting to understand the other party’s
“From Private Ordeal to National Fight: The Case of Terri Schiavo” by Clyde Haberman (2014) he explains the dilemma of Terri Schiavo. A twenty-six year old, Terri Schiavo, mysteriously collapsed due to her brain being deprived of oxygen for to long. She was then put in a persistent vegetative state, where in the article it states “ She could breath without mechanical assistance. But doctors concluded that she was incapable of thought or emotion.” Her parents wanted her to be kept alive while her husband knew Terri wouldn’t. In the article it claims “ Florida courts, while sympathizing with the parents, consistently sided with the husband as a matter of law.” Although the courts sided with Michael, the Florida politicians felt differently. “
Robert Baltovich was wrongly convicted of the murder of his girlfriend, Elizabeth Bain, in Scarborough, Canada. He was arrested on November 19, 1990, and charged for first-degree murder. On March 31, 1992, he was convicted of second-degree murder. Finally, on April 22, 2008, he was found not guilty of the murder.
This case is about euthanasia and assisted suicide. On September 28, 1991, Dr. Boudewijn Chabot administered a sufficient amount of sleeping pills and a liquid drug mixture to a patient with the intentions of assisting the patient with death. The patient, Hilly Bosscher, was suffering from depression, and psychological pain. She was recently divorced from a 25 year abusive relationship, and her two son’s had died. The doctor determined she suffered from unbearable pain, genuinely desired to die, and freely and competently made such a request. On the same day Dr. Chabot administered the medici...
When parents refuse treatment for children: A legal and ethical Q&A. (n.d.). Retrieved March 10, 2016, from http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/20/when-parents-refuse-treatment-for-children-a-legal-and-ethical-qa/
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According to the judicial decision, he was found guilty of second-degree murder of his daughter Tracy, who suffered of several conditions, among those, CP or cerebral palsy that made her unable to be independent in all ways, besides causing multiple additional health issues, that produced a lot of extreme physical pain, and also psychological suffering, not just for Tracy, but also for her entire family.
Mersch, John. “How Is Child Abuse Treated?” MedicineNet.com. MedicineNet, Inc, 1996-2011. Web. 3 Mar. 2011.
A major American society issue is child abuse and it just keeps increasing with each new generation. We need to always be on the lookout for signs and symptoms of child abuse and report it to proper authorities. “Approximately five children die every day because of child abuse” (Ho, Gross, & Bettencourt, 2017). “One out of three girls and one out of five boys will be sexually abused before they reach age 18” (Gosselin, 2014). And, 90% of child sexual abuse victims know the perpetrator such as a family member” (Ho, Gross, & Bettencourt, 2017). As healthcare providers, we are these children’s option to live another day because more than four children die daily from neglect and child abuse (Ho, Gross, & Bettencourt,