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Case Study: This assignment requires you to use Stage One of the Ethical Analysis Essay - Create an Outline as your starting point for writing an essay that analyzes the ethical dimensions in the film you have already selected. If you have not selected a film, please choose from the list below. If you cannot access these films, you may select a different film, but you will require prior approval from your instructor.
Films for Ethical Analysis Essay
Awakenings (1990) - The story of a doctor's extraordinary work in the Sixties with a group of catatonic patients he finds languishing in a Bronx hospital. Speculating that their rigidity may be akin to an extreme form of Parkinsonism, he seeks permission from his skeptical superiors to treat them with L-dopa, a drug that was used to treat Parkinson's disease at the time.
Your film analysis should feature the application of one (or more) of the following ethical theories listed below:
- Virtue Ethics
- Utilitarian Ethics
- Moral Sense Theory (Conscience)
- Social Contract Theory
- The Ethics of Care
- Kantian Ethics
- Moral Relativism
Introduction - Provide a brief synopsis of the film that includes the ethical dilemma present in the film. Introduce the ethical theory you will use to analyze the film. Ethical Analysis - Apply one ethical theory to the medical ethical dilemma presented in the film. First, describe this ethical theory in your own words, using the readings and course materials as textual evidence for your explanation of the moral view. Next, discuss how this ethical theory could provide solutions or recommendations for remedying the ethical dilemma featured in the film. In your analysis, be sure to address the following questions:
Question 1: What moral values are present in the film (as they relate to the ethical theory you have chosen)?
Question 2: Are there instances of moral values in conflict with one another?
Question 3: What moral guidance does the ethical theory that you selected provide the characters in the film?