1.Describe the paradox of the phrase \"benevolent deception\". Aredoctors who allow their patients to be involved in potentiallyharmful clinical treatments in compliance with their HippocraticOath? What does the use of “a miserable specimen†by a physicianreveal about his/her attitude toward a patient? (Be sure to includesupportive examples from either The Immortal Life of HenriettaLacks or the US Public Health Service Syphilis Study atTuskegee.)
2. An older married couple without children was involved in acar accident that left the wife with brain damage and her husbandin a vegetative state. The wife was willing to liquidate theirassets in order to fund additional life support for her husband inthe hope that he would regain consciousness at some point. However,doctors at the hospital were debating whether or not the wife hadsufficient mental capacity to make an informed decision regardingher husband’s care. You are one of the doctors at that hospital whoserve on the medical ethics team. Give your recommendationincorporating Dr. Hopkins’s lecture on the conflicts in the socialpsychology of paternalism and public health care.
