First Class Law and Medicine Notes covering: medical ethics, consent, end of life decision-making, transplantation, abortion and reproductive medicine.

First Class Law and Medicine Notes covering: medical ethics, consent, end of life decision-making, transplantation, abortion and reproductive medicine.

The Chimo Project concept was founded in 1999 by Dennis Anderson who, at that time, was the President of the Canadian Mental Health Association in Alberta. The Chimo Project is named after Dennis’s animal friend “Chimo,” a Blue Heeler/Labrador cross. Because Dennis has personally experienced the psychological benefits of human-animal interactions, he aspired to obtain evidence that animals may be beneficial in the treatment of persons with mental health concerns. The na...

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION TO CONCEPT OF MENTAL HEALTH / ILLNESS The concepts of mental health and mental illness are culturally defined. Some cultures are quite liberal in the range of behaviors that are considered acceptable, where- as others have very little tolerance for behaviors that deviate from the cultural norms. A study of the history of psychiatric care reveals some shocking truths about past treatment of mentally ill individuals. Many were kept in control by means that were c...

Does disability have a value? Is it always a bad thing? If it has some negative consequences, but is not overall bad is it a bad-difference or a mere-difference? These notes cover: Bad-Difference views of disability - Impact of disability on wellbeing - Objections Mere-Difference view of disability - Local/global goods and bads - Good / bad / neutral simplicter - Barnes' Value-Neutral model - Evaluation Issues of Causing & Removing Disability in relation to the value of disabili...

Notes on the various social constructionist accounts of disability including: The Social Model The Social Exclusion Model Haslangerian Account of Disability Barnes' Solidarity Account Marginalised Functioning

Notes from readings done to supplement the lecture notes for this topic including the function of criminal law and issues of gender and race in the prison industrial complex. Sources: Legal Punishment - Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy Are Prisons Obsolete? - Angela Davis

These notes consist of the topics in the 'Criminal Justice' part of the Applied Ethics module including the function of criminal law, Foucault's power analysis and intersectionality in the prison industrial complex. Function of Criminal Law (retributivism, deterrence, communication) Evolution of Punishment (inc. Enlightenment values, reforms, slavery) Foucault's Analysis of Modern Disciplinary Power Bentham's Panopticon Angela Davis' Critique of Foucault's Analysis Gendered Character of ...

In these notes, all the topics in the 'Disability' part of the Applied Ethics module are covered including outlines of various accounts of disability and evaluation of these, as well as debates regarding the value of disability. Naturalistic Accounts (inc. Species-Norm, Negative Departure from Norm) Social Constructionist Accounts (inc. Social Model, Social Exclusion Model) Solidarity Account (Elizabeth Barnes) Marginalised Functioning Bad-Difference View Mere-Difference View / Value-N...

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