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Name of resource: Applied ethics - contrasting perspectives.
Submitted by: Aidan Sammons
Specification details: AQA-A
Other specifications: All
Guidance: Handout containing brief overview of the deontological & teleological perspectives.
Students are asked to think of two ethically questionable studies and consider whether they
would be regarded as acceptable by each perspective & explain why.  They may then go on
to consider the implications of adopting the different views.  The usual response IME is that
'if we take the deontological view we can't do any research at all'.  It can be quite interesting
to interrogate this view.