Moral treatment

hospitals were gradually converted into asylums. Many believed it was the best solution for housing the mentally ill and assisting them in their daily lives. These institutions had the key purpose of lodging and treating large capacities of the mentally ill. The first asylum was Bethlehem Hospital, which was founded in the early fifteenth century in London. The hospital was given to the city of London by Henry VIII and its sole purpose was to detain the mentally ill. Instead of receiving treatment, though, patients endured alarming amounts of cruelty. For example, patients were lined up and whipped in order to inhibit violence. As a result of this, the asylum became a popular tourist attraction. The general public was enthusiastic to pay to look at the howling and gibbering inmates. Despite deteriorating conditions and immense…

Career Path Profile The career path that I am going to pursue in the field of Exercise Science is Occupational Therapy. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Occupational Therapists treat injured, ill or disabled patients through the therapeutic use of everyday activities. This specific type of therapy began to slowly surface around the 17000’s. This was during the time where mentally ill were treated horribly and were dangerous to civilization. Two men,…

insane and assigned those individuals to the Bethlehem Hospital in the city London. The intentions behind asylums were to aid the mentally ill in overcoming their illnesses, therefore, soon after the establishment of Bethlehem Hospital, other countries began to follow this movement in mental health facilities. It is said that the first asylum in the Americas was San Hipolito, which was built in Mexico 1566. (Viney & King, 1998) It is said that these institutions became a place where the…

of suffering and will weaken a person mentally. If the assisted suicide of the person helps his or hers own good then the moral is right. The assisted suicide would not cause any wrong doing to anyone. People could argue it could hurt the family being forced to let go of a loved one that they will miss, but in that case it would be morally wrong to keep a person living in torment and suffering with no hope of getting better because fear of losing them. If that person was to not want to put…

gene therapy. Gene therapy is still a moral debate to this day, some people beg the question if it’s okay to use gene therapy or what would it do to the human body which are all great questions. The discussion will be on whether the “Bubble Boy” gene therapy experiment was ethical or not and if the treatment was worth the risk. Basically the “Bubble Boy” experiment was on children suffering from the bubble boy disease which is a severe combined immunodeficiency that can possibly lead to death…

The notion of “separateness of persons” has posed several convincing objections to utilitarianism. These have been voiced by Rawls, Nozick and Nagel all of which have disregarded the moral force that drives utilitarianism, highlighting the theories lack of recognition of individuality and separate utility. To me, the “separateness of persons” not only is successful in silencing utilitarianism, it also is crucial to our very concept of morality. I argue this through presenting defeats to…

innate selfishness. In contrast to modern theorists like Locke, who contend that the pursuit of self-interest will serve the common good, Swift underscores the potential for unleashing the beastliness in human nature, loosening the traditional moral constraints on avarice and ambition. As a commentary on the modern project, Swift introduces the crude and uncontrollably desirous "Yahoos," who, given the opportunity to pursue their self-interests, reveal a complete disregard for others. He…

suspects. It must control all media, limit private conversation and freedom of thought, and squash political opposition. In fact, a Fascist government as depicted by Silone must act in a sort of faith against humanity attitude in order to protect itself and maintain its political power which requires total domination of its people. One of the advantages of this faith against humanity conception is that the Fascist government’s corresponding brutality and inhumane and immoral treatment of people…

This moral theory has remained influential in the public imagination even though many philosophers no longer taken it seriously. According to Aquinas, if God made nature and reason discloses how nature works, then reason reveals to us that this is the correct way because God made it like that. Hence, Aquinas’ Natural Law expresses fundamentally that natural equals good, and unnatural equals bad. For example, nowadays, most people take aspirin to alleviate the pain, but for Aquinas, that is bad…

Universalism is the opposite metaethical view from cultural relativism, and states that right and wrong are not based on culture or society at all. Moral rules transcend cultural boundaries and apply to everyone; there is only one correct moral code and all people should live by it, regardless of their society or culture. The implication is that in many cases societies are following the wrong moral principles, and they need to change. According to this view morals are objective and therefore…