Health Care Ethics
(Bioethics)
Module #7 Teacher’s Guide
Lesson Title: Basic Principles of Health Care and the Nature of Materials:
Rights in Ethical Discourse Part 2
Pen, paper, index card, book, and class List
Learning Targets:
At the end of the module, students will be able to:
1. Define what Legal right is; References:
2. Differentiate moral rights and legal rights; and,
3. Identify problems regarding Rights. Ethics of Health Care: A Guide for Clinical
Practice Fourth Edition, Raymond S. Edge, J.
Randall Groves
A. LESSON PREVIEW/REVIEW
Brain Teaser: The instructor will call three volunteer students to share what have been discussed for the last session or
we can ask student specific questions like:
1. What do you understand about the fair opportunity fair?
2. Who is Thomas Hobbes?
3. What do you mean by natural rights?
B. MAIN LESSON
The instructor should discuss the following topics. Instruct students to take down notes.
Legal Rights
Not only asserted as moral prerogatives but afforded governmental guarantees
Created through constitutional guarantees, legislative statutes, judicial review, governmental agencies
Easier to put into place laws that protect negative rights
Characteristics of a Legal Person
Persons can be injured
Persons can be thought to have interests
Persons can be benefited
Legal rights often used to reaffirm moral rights, do not necessarily coincide
Moral and Legal Rights
Universal
Moral rights provide equality among humans
Moral rights not product of human creativity, but are inherent to our species
The Problem of Rights
Multiplication of claims to personal rights
Human imagination and creativity can create more claims to rights than we could possibly honor
CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING
The instructor will prepare 10 questions that can enhance critical thinking skills. Students will work by themselves to
answer these questions and write the rationale for each question.
1. “Right to bear arms” are example under what kind of legal right?
A. Human rights
B. Personal right
C. Negative rights
D. Positive rights
ANSWER:C
List of negative legal rights that have been afforded by the sanction of law.
- Equal opportunity in employment
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- Freedom of Religion
- Right to bear arms
- Right to personal property
- No taxation without representation
- Right to an abortion
2. Which of the following characteristics are commonly attributed to a legal person?
A. Person can be benefitted
B. Person can be injured
C. Person can be thought to have interest
D. All of the above
ANSWER: D
Only legal persons can receive legal rights. The characteristics commonly attributed to a legal person include that.
- Person can be injured
- Person can be thought to have interest
- Person can be benefitted
3. This be thought of as recipient or welfare rights as they require goods or service provided.
A. Positive rights
B. Negative rights
C. Human rights
D. Natural rights
ANSWER: A
Positive rights or also known as welfare rights is about provision of goods and services.
4. A power, privilege, or immunity guaranteed under a constitution, statutes, or decisional law.
A. Legal Rights
B. Justice
C. Confidentiality
D. Natural rights
ANSWER: A
Legal Rights are clearly, rights which exist under the rules of legal systems or by virtue of decisions suitably authoritative
bodies within them. Legal rights are created through constitutional guarantees, legislative statutes, judicial review and
government agencies.
5. Right to a public education is under what type of legal rights?
A. Natural Rights
B. Positive Rights
C. Negative Rights
D. Human Rights
ANSWER: B
- Indigent right to health care
- Licensed driver’s right to use of public roads Right to a public education
- American veterans right to health care
- Citizen of Ballwin, Michigan, to garbage collection
C. LESSON WRAP-UP
AL Activity: Muddiest Point: Students respond to this one question: “In today’s session, what was least clear to you?”
This technique will help you determine which key points were missed by the students.
Instructions:
1. Reserve a few minutes at the end of class session. Leave enough time to ask the question, to allow students to
respond, and to collect their responses.
2. Pass out slips of paper on index cards for students to write on. You may also ask students to bring out and write on a
half sheet of paper instead.
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3. Collect the responses as or before students leave. One way is to station yourself at the door and collecting “muddiest
point papers” as students file out.
4. Respond to students’ feedback during the next class meeting or as soon as possible.
5. DO NOT use this method after every class or it will become monotonous, and the information will not be as useful.
In today’s session, what was least clear to you?
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