OVERVIEW
The purpose of these ethical reflection assignments is to equip you to apply course reading and
theological ethics into the types of situations that health care leaders and administrators face over
the course of their career. Case studies such as these are not catechistic, but they can provide a
basis for grounding one’s ethical reflections in context-rich situations.
INSTRUCTIONS
For each of these assignments, you will write a 1500-word essay responding to an ethical
question. Your responses should include two peer-reviewed sources and one theological-ethical
source. Theological sources cannot simply be a biblical reference without textual
commentary/analysis. Do not force the theological reflections, but ground them in evidential,
textual, and exegetical reflection
Ethical Reflection: Honor and Integrity in Science Assignment
You have been assigned by your supervisor to develop a handbook for ethical research standards.
Within your department you have a wide range of research areas involving both human and
animal subjects.
What values and issues should this handbook address? What steps can be taken to ensure ethical
research is being conducted within the department by both faculty and students?
In a concluding section to your paper (that would not be included in the published handbook),
analyze your theological convictions that were present in the product. How did your views
regarding creation, care, stewardship, and Genesis in the Bible, aid in your reasonings for how
you wrote your handbook?
Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.
BOOK: American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). Washington, DC: Author. ISBN: 9781433832161.
Bulger, R. E., Heitman, E., & Reiser, S. J. (2002). The ethical dimensions of the biological sciences: a textbook with case studies (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780521008860.
