Musuclar Dystrophy and Medical Ethics

Read the following:


Then answer the following questions:

Would you expect the 2 daughters of the mother in the article to have a chance to have sons with muscular dystrophy? Explain.

Should we as a society spend more or less on diseases like Duchenne muscular dystrophy? Note that Duchenne Muscular dystrophy is fairly common compared to most single gene diseases, but much rarer than conditions like heart disease or autism.

If a cure is found but it is very expensive, should it be available to everybody? Why or why not?

A doctor in that article made (what I believe) to be a serious ethical error. What was it? Discuss.

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