PHI 413V Discussions DQs Topic 1 - 5 (Package Deal)

Topic 1 DQ2 Description: What aspects of the topic readings do you find the most interesting? What is your view of the analysis of disease and healing in the readings? Explain.

Topic 2 DQ 1 Description: What is the Christian concept of the imago Dei? How might it be important to health care, and why is it relevant?

Topic 2 DQ 2 Description: According to your worldview, what value does a human person have? How does your position affect your stance on controversial bioethical issues, such as abortion, designer babies, and stem cell research?

Topic 3 DQ 1 The four principles, especially in the context of bioethics in the United States, has often been critiqued for raising the principle of autonomy to the highest place, such that it trumps all other principles or values. How would you rank the importance of each of the four principles? H...

Topic 3 DQ 2 Description: What do the four parts of the Christian biblical narrative (i.e., creation, fall, redemption, and restoration) say about the nature of God and of reality in relation to the reality of sickness and disease? From where would one find comfort and hope in the light of illness...

Topic 4 DQ 1 Description: How often do you engage with or witness death in your work? How has this experience or the lack of it shaped your view of death? Has it gotten easier or harder for you to accept the fact of death? As you explain, include your clinical specialty. separation

Topic 4 DQ 2 Description: Reflect on the analysis of the sin of suicide and, thus, euthanasia from the topic readings. Do you agree? Why or why not? Refer to the lecture and topic readings in your response.