KS3/4 Medical Ethics unit of work

This is a unit on medical ethics, including religious perspectives. The unit includes 6 x 1 hour lessons with all handouts/printing documents, with plenty of opportunity for discussion and debate. It also includes an A4 knowledge bank that covers all key aspects, for the purpose of revision and summary, should you wish to have an end of unit assessment (assessment not included). The lesson titles are:

• Medical ethics introduction
• Blood and organ donation (NHS campaign, law changes, general information, Jehovahs Witnesses’)
• Quality of life (Health related and non-health related, case study on dementia patients, case study on doll therapy for QoL for dentia patients, sanctity of life)
• Euthanasia (Sanctity of life, types of euthanasia and the legal implications, Christian and Islamic perspectives)
• Abortion (When does life begin, pro-life view, pro-choice view, Roman Catholic perspective, Wade vs Roe debate and law changes which include two sensitive case studies of women denied necessary medical abortions since the laws have changed)
• Capital punishment (Derek Bentley case study, careers affected if capital punishment was legalised in the UK , e.g, doctors, pharmacists, police.