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A boy with dark hair and dark eyes kneels by an apple tree petting a small puppy. Surrounding him are bats, skunks, foxes, raccoons. A blonde hair girl with big blue eyes watches him from behind the tree.

A boy with dark hair and dark eyes kneels by an apple tree petting a small puppy. Surrounding him are bats, skunks, foxes, raccoons. A blonde hair girl with big blue eyes watches him from behind the tree.

A Study in Health Care Ethics

Tianyu Tan ’26

A boy with dark hair and dark eyes kneels by an apple tree petting a small puppy. He is surrounded by bats, skunks, foxes, and raccoons. A girl with blonde hair and big blue eyes watches him from behind the tree. Illustrations by Tianyu Tan ’25.

Tianyu Tan is a biology major and was a 2024-25 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own.

 

As a follow up to her March, 2025 essay, "Your Money or Your Life: The Ethics of the Expensive Rabies Treatment," Tan wrote and illustrated a fictional case study, "Ethics of the Anti-Rabies PEP," highlighting facts about the Rabies virus and exploring ethical issues regarding diagnosis, access, and the high cost of obtaining necessary rabies treatments.

Aug 22, 2025
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