Hello my name is Alexandria Parker, I’m a sophomore at Durham Academy. I’ve always been interested in medicine because of exposure to it from various science camps as a kid. As I’ve gotten older I’ve also started to find a love in philosophy. I never truly knew how much these two were interconnected until this project. This project will be conducted in the first half of the school year ending with a seminar to present my results and also collect some more data from what current-day high schoolers think is moral. If you have any questions or ideas please reach out at 27Parkerh@da.org.
The Physician’s Post
What is Medical Ethics?
That question breaks down into two parts, what is medicine and what is moral? What makes this term uneasy to define is that what one might think is moral, there is a whole field of special exceptions for medicine. My project will look at how different people from different time lines and places defined what they believed was ethical in medicine. Also how or why their culture shaped their lives when creating these ideas.