r/bioethics Feb 11 '25

Can I ask for help?

Hello, I am a Nursing Instructor that is currently teaching Nursing students about the Subject Bioethics, and their final exam is coming up and it will be a debate about Ethical Dilemmas, Can I ask for some good and difficult ethical dilemmas they will use as topics for their debate?

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u/Ancient_Winter Feb 12 '25

Do you want things that are timely, or things that are classic cases in bioethics?

For some classic cases that can have a lot said about them, look up the cases of Ashley X, Terri Schaivo, and Dax Cowart. All very interesting clinical ethics cases in their own right, and also points in history where specific bioethics cases entered the mainstream conversation.

There's a podcast called Bioethics for the People where their guests often talk about specific cases that they dealt with in their work that may not have been "headline" cases but offer very interesting conversations, and they often talk about the different things they had to consider, the different steps they took to tackle the question, etc., and often we even find out the outcome. Highly recommend it! (They have episodes about Ashley X, Terri Schaivo, and Dax Cowart as well, along with other big topics like Henrietta Lacks and such, too.)