Using Virtue Ethics Case Summary

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Using the Social contract theory, it evaluates moral problems from the point of view of moral rights. To analysis Jennifer situation we have to consider rights of Jennifer, patients, and PDM. Do the patients have a right to choose to switch over to the new drug? If the customer decides to switch over to the new drug and it doesn’t work, can they switch back? If Jennifer and the patients have equal right to switch over to the new drug, then Jennifer won’t be doing anything bad by accepting the deal. But, if the patient has the right to choose to switch over to the new drug then Jennifer will be wrong in accepting the deal without asking for permission from the patients.
Using Virtue Ethics, a right action is an action that a virtuous person,

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