BIOETHICS MIDTERMS [DECK 2] Flashcards
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Does not understand concept of death, believes death is reversible, temporary departure or sleep.
Infancy to 5 years
Understand death is FINAL, believes death CAN BE AVOIDED, believes wishes and unrelated actions can be responsible for death
5 to 9 years
Begin to understand own mortality, expressed in after life and fear of death.
9 to 12 years
○May still hold concept from previous developmental stages, may seem to reach “adult” perception of death but be emotionally unable to accept it.
12 to 18 years
○Has attitude towards death influenced by religious and cultural beliefs.
18 to 45 years
Accept own mortality, encounters death of parents some peers experiences.
45 to 65 years
Fears prolonged illness, sees death as having multiple meaning, (eg. freedom from pain, reunion with already diseases family member).
65 years and above
○It is translated from Latin as “cold death” and describes the postmortem temperature
○change after someone has died. It falls 1.8F per hour until it reaches room temperature.
Algor Mortis
○It is refers to the stiffness of the body that occurs 2 to 4 hours after the death of a person. It starts with the involuntary muscles (heart, bladder and so on).
Rigor Mortis
○It is refers to skin becomes discolored
and looses its elasticity, tissues become soft.
Livor Mortis
Etymologically euthanasia means
“easy death”
a.The practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering.
b.The painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma.
c.It refers to the situation when a doctor induces the death with a lethal injection, of a patient who is suffering unrelievably and has persistently requested the doctor to do so.
EUTHANASIA
●More strictly, it means painless and peaceful death: it is deliberate putting to death in an easy, painless way, of an individual suffering from an incurable and agonizing disease.
EUTHANASIA
●consists of depositing a man’s semen in the vagina, cervical canal or uterus through the use of instruments to bring about conception unattained or unattainable by sexual intercourse.
Artificial insemination (AI)
○It means that doctors insert sperm inside the uterus to achieve pregnancy.
Artificial insemination (AI)
the introduction of sperm into a female’s reproductive system for the purpose of impregnating, also called fertilizing, the female for sexual reproduction.
Insemination
○The deliberate introduction of sperm into a female’s uterus or cervix through in vitro fertilization.
Artificial insemination
artificial insemination by husband (AIH)
Homologous insemination
artificial insemination by donor (AID)
Heterologous insemination
“Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012”
R.A 10354
Child is considered legitimate even if the wife was artificially inseminated with the sperm of a donor
Article 164 of the Family Code
While not required, the doctor may prescribe fertility drugs like - before the artificial insemination procedure.
Clomid or gonadotropins/injectables
○The easiest and most common insemination technique.
INTRACERVICAL INSEMINATION (ICI)
○Involves injection of unwashed or raw semen into the cervix with a needleless syringe.
○When performed at home without the presence of a professional this procedure is sometimes referred to as intravaginal insemination (IVI).
●INTRACERVICAL INSEMINATION (ICI)