Health Care Ethics

(Bioethics)

Module #7 Student Activity Sheet

Name: _________________________________________________________________ Class number: _______

Section: ____________ Schedule: ________________________________________ Date: ________________

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: You will be asked to answer the following questions.

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

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

You will answer and rationalize this by yourself. This will be recorded as your quiz. One (1) point will be given to correct
answer and another one (1) point for the correct ratio. Superimpositions or erasures in you answer/ratio is not allowed.

1. “Right to bear arms” are example under what kind of legal right?
A. Human rights
B. Personal right
C. Negative rights

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D. Positive rights
Answer: ________
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
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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: ________
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
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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: ________
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
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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: ________
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
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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: ________
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
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C. LESSON WRAP-UP

AL Activity: Muddiest Point

In today’s session, what was least clear to you?
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Section: ____________ Schedule: ________________________________________ Date: ________________

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