Here is the list of potential exam questions. There are ten (10) potential ID questions here; the final
exam will include five (5) of them and you will be required to answer four (4). There are five (5)
potential essay questions here; the final exam will include two (2) and you will be required to answer
both. There will be one (1) Case Study Application question on the exam you will be required to
answer that you will not receive beforehand.
The timing of the exam should go something like the following:
1 Write Your Name on The Exam Question with a 2-word Response = 3 seconds = 4 points
4 ID Questions with ~100-word responses each = 4 x 6 minutes = 24 minutes = 24 points
2 Essay Questions with ~400-word responses each = 2 x 16 minutes = 32 minutes = 48 points
1 Case Study Analysis Question with a ~400 word response = 24 minutes = 24 points
Total = ~1602 words = 80 minutes and 3 seconds = 100 points
Happy Studying and Good Luck!!!!
Five ID questions will appear on the exam; you will be required to answer four of those five at six
points each.
Identity Questions:
1. What is “the Common Rule”? To whom does it apply, where did it come from, what does it
accomplish and how does it do it?
2. What do “ought implies can” and “naturalistic fallacy” mean for bioethics? Give a scenario / topic
from the class and explain how each could apply.
3. What does “biological embedding” mean? What is its significance for bioethics?
4. What is BiDil, and how does it relate to personalized medicine?
5. What is guinea-pigging, where does it happen, and what are some ethical concerns about this
practice?
6. What are the important differences between Act and Rule Utilitarianism? What are the advantages /
disadvantages of each?
7. Briefly, what ethical issues are at stake in assisted human reproduction and in human embryo
research? What issues of individual rights? Comment specifically on how values can come to be
embedded in technology and/or medical standards of care.
8. What is the rationale for the obligation to participate in medical and clinical research? How is this
obligation reflected in “private” organ donation clubs, where one must agree to be willing to donate a
needed organ in order to receive one should the need arise?
9. What are the four acceptable modes of doctor-patient interaction? What factors would help decide
which one is most appropriate for a given context?
10. In our readings, both Greene and Singer discuss a hypothetical scenario in which you, the reader,
have an opportunity to help a person in need (an injured person by the side of the road in Greene, a
drowning child in Singer). Why does each of them bring this up, and what are the important aspects of
the relationship between these two hypotheticals?
Two Essay questions will appear on the exam; you will be required to answer both questions. They are
worth 24 points each.
Essay Questions:
1. Some scholars have proposed that prisoners ought to be targeted as research subjects for human
clinical trials. What problem(s) is this proposal meant to address? Additionally, provide one wellreasoned
argument in support of, and one against, this proposal.
2. What kind of problem is the problem of obesity? Choose and defend a framing of obesity for ethical
and health policy purposes. Be sure to engage possible objections to your selected framing.
3. Are trolley problems useful to bioethics? Choose a problem in bioethics that we have discussed
during the course and re-construe it in terms of a trolley problem. Then analyze the benefits and/or
limitations of using such a framework for ethical analysis of your chosen problem. Then discuss what
role (if any) you think such techniques of ethical analysis can/should play in bioethics advice for
policymaking.
4. The Belmont Principles, interpreted through Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), are meant to
protect human subjects in research. Explain: What are the Belmont principles, where did they come
from, and how were the Belmont Principles a response to the research scandals of 1960s and 1970s,
especially Tuskegee and the studies discussed by Beecher? Evaluate: How well do the Belmont
Principles and the IRB system work to protect human subjects?
5. Characterize the animal ethics approaches of Singer and Regan. What are their requirements for
ethical consideration and/or rights, and how do they justify these requirements? What are the major
differences between Singer’s and Regan’s ethical systems and rhetorical styles? Finally, apply their
ideas – how would they each have reacted to the use of chimpanzees in polio research in the U.S. in the
first half of the 20th century?
One Case Study Application Question will appear on the exam; you will not see this question until the
day of the exam. It will not require any particular technical information, but it will require you to
analyze a case using concepts from the course (and the case analysis format discussed in class). It is
worth 24 poinT
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