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PHT402

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  • Lectures
    • 1. Basic principles of ethics
    • 2. Ethical dilemmas
    • 3. Empathy
    • 4. Professional practice
    • 5. Moral judgement and distress
    • 6. Meaningful life and death
    • 7. Euthanasia and abortion
    • 8. Human rights
    • 9. Resource allocation
    • 10. Ethics in research
    • 11. Sexual harassment
    • 12. Ethics in sport
    • 13. Substance abuse
    • 14. Whistleblowing
    • 15. Family violence
  • Topics
    • Morality and ethics
    • Human rights
    • Basic principles of ethics
    • Ethics and professionalism
    • Meaningful life and death
      • Terminal illness
      • Dealing with death
      • Abortion
      • Suicide and Assisted suicide
    • Resource allocation
    • Ethics in sport
    • Integrity and wrongdoing
      • Substance abuse
      • Whistle blowing
      • Fraud
    • Integrity in research
    • Mental health
    • Sexual harassment
    • Abuse
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Author: Carla Everton

September 16, 2019September 30, 2019Term 3 (2019)

A child’s human rights as reflected in the movie “My Sister’s Keeper” by Jodie Picoult

  A disheartening situation unfolded at a well-known hospital in Cape Town whereby a 14 year old male patient who had been […]

June 9, 2019July 29, 2019Term 2 (2019)

Empathy towards an eighteen year old patient who attempted suicide after falling victim to rape.

An 18 year old girl was admitted to the medical ICU at a well-known hospital in Cape Town due to para-suicide on […]

March 4, 2019June 5, 2019Term 1 (2019)

The quiet, but loud cry for help by a professional female athlete to a conflicted student physiotherapist

Student physiotherapists are taught and reminded timeously during lectures of the importance of incorporating ethical reasoning and professionalism within the scope of […]

September 18, 2018May 22, 2019Assignment (2018)

Advice from a patient, by Carla Everton (3560799)

Advice from a patient Unknown author ThIs may be a normal day at work for you but it’s a big day in […]

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