What medical ethical dilemma present in the film

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Ethical Analysis Essay Planning Document

Dallas Buyers Club (2013) (Drama)-An electrician learns he has AIDS and has just 30 days left to live. He smuggles unapproved drugs into the U.S. and joins with a fellow AIDS patient to sell the treatments to people who can't wait for science to find a treatment.

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1. What medical ethical dilemma present in the film and what happens in the film, including the ending.

2. Identify the ethical theory you have chosen to apply to the film.

Briefly explain how the theory you selected applies to the film. Select one:

Virtue Ethics - Core Principles - telos, virtue, eudaimonism

Kantian Ethics - Core Principles - duty, universality, impartiality, reciprocity

Utilitarian Ethics - Core Principles - welfare, impartiality, sum-ranking, consequences

Identify the core principles of the ethical theory that apply to a medical ethical issue present in the film. Briefly explain how at least one of these core principles applies to the medical ethical issue.

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