1.Suppose that you were in charge of a governmental or charitable agency that had a lot of money to spend on research. What kinds of approaches do you think would be the most effective in preventing developmental disorders caused by behavior (for example, fetal alcohol syndrome) and by genetic factors?

2. Suppose that a young schizophrenic woman insists on living in the streets and refuses to take antipsychotic medication. She is severely disturbed; she is undernourished and often takes intravenous drugs, which expose her to the risk of AIDS. Her parents have tried to get her to seek help, but she believes that they are plotting against her. Suppose further that we can predict with 90 percent accuracy that she will die within a few years. She is not violent, and she has never talked about committing suicide, so we cannot prove that her behavior constitutes an immediate threat to herself or to others. Should her parents be able to force her to receive treatment, or does she have an absolute right to be left alone, even if she is mentally ill?