6. Medical Ethics Revision Guide (Edexcel A Level RS)

Revision guide following the 2016 Edexcel Religious Studies specification for Paper 2: Religion and Ethics.

Covers topic 6: Medical Ethics - Beginning and End of Life Issues.

Includes

• Key words, scholars, concepts and theories at a glace
  As well as detailed notes on:
  BEGINNING OF LIFE:
• When does life begin?
• Personhood
• Descriptions and evaluation of key beginning of life issues e.g. embryo research, PGD, cord blood research, IVF, stem cell research
• Abortion and the UK’s legal picture
• Religious and secular arguments regarding abortion
  END OF LIFE:
• Definitions and different types of euthanasia
• The hospice movement
• Arguments from the sanctity of life
• Liberal religious arguments regarding abortion
• Secular arguments regarding abortion
• Analysis of Wilcoxson’s anthology extract needed for the exam.