Essays on Illness

Physician-Assisted Suicide: An Analysis Physician-assisted suicide (PAD), refers to the death of a patient helped by physicians and doctors through the administration of life-terminating medication (Menzel, "Steinbock, 2013). The Physician-Assisted suicide is similar to Euthanasia but differs in the sense that in the former, the patient receives advice about how to...

This paper is an assessment of the medical case study of a young girl and the prognosis that is given to her. The case study depicts Kant’s considerations that are based on the factors of risk and truthfulness.  We begin by discussing the medical conditions and factors that acted as...

In his paper, James Rachels argues against the conventional doctrine that is against doctors taking action that leads to a patient’s death. Further, he claims that taking such action leads to more suffering of the patient than if they were on medication until their time to die. If the patient...

In the current world, one of the most debated and controversial topics is abortion. Many judicial proceedings have decided on the legality or the illegality of this act. Most of the ladies in the society have tried to abort because, in their mind, it is not the right time for...

The ethical distinction between letting die and killing plays apart over the making of euthanasia legal. The difference between the two gets a usual way that people typically think about the issue of euthanasia. According to James Rachels, the difference between the two is not relevant morally. He used the...

The trolley problem is a thought experiment involving ethical conflict and moral paradox. It was first proposed by Phillipa Foot in 1967 and later analyzed extensively by Judith Jarvis Thompson. The trolley problem poses a decision making challenge wherein one has to decide between two tracks in the way of...

The world is a dynamic place that is ever changing with the break of every dawn. Indeed, everything moves so fast that it becomes tedious to keep up with the flow of events. Also, there are so many contentious issues, some of which have existed since time immemorial while others...

The Relationship between Learning and Remembering The relationship between learning and remembering is a function of the memory. Memory refers to the mental ability to store information which is learned by a person and retrieved for use in the future. Amnesia refers to a disorder of the memory and the systems...

Benefits of Drinking Water Through research, it has been noted that more than 60 percent of the human body is made up of water, this makes it necessary to keep the body hydrated. Drinking enough water ensures that that food is properly digested, nutrients, antibodies, hormones and the cells that are...

Professional Environments and Ethical Decision-Making Professional environments require individuals to practice ethical decision-making but the foundations upon which to base these decisions vary depending on the ethical theory used to analyze a particular situation. An analysis of ethical dilemma 4, namely the sick patients’ scenario, highlights that the use of deontological...

Human beings are seen as living organisms whose structure consists of two legs, a pair of arms, one head, a pair of eyes, ears, on such features. From this definition, human beings are identical. These features make one person similar to another. However, according to my definition, a human being...

Plato noted that knowledge is a recollection whereby humans possess an innate understanding of activities or things they experience in the world. Plato believed that a person regains knowledge when his soul resides in the invisible realm of the forms and the good. Thus, everything that exists in the natural...