Ethics in healthcare

Question 1

What does ethics cover?

Answer 1

Considerations, reflections and discussions regarding moral models and guidelines

Question 2

What is Paternalization?

Answer 2

Professionals having a knowledge that is beyond what others know - thereby managing patients in the manner of a fatherdealing intrusively way

Question 3

What is stigmatization?

Answer 3

To treat a particular type of behaviour as wrong or embarrassing and to try to make people who behave in this way feel ashamed

Question 4

What is patient autonomy

Answer 4

The right of patients to make decisions about their medical care without their health care provider trying to influence the decision.

Patient autonomy does allow for health care providers to educate the patient but does not allow the health care provider to make the decision for the patient.

Question 5

What is the difference between legitimacy and legality?

Answer 5

Legality:
- Complying with the law

Legitimacy:
- Fair, morally or ethically acceptable.

Question 6

What is Moral fundamentalism?

Answer 6

Humans rely on rules and regulations regarding human interaction that are rooted in somewhat bigger, something outside human beings themselves

We comply with these rules and regulations because it is our duty and obligation

Human interaction is based on that we speak the truth

Question 7

What is Moral relativism ?

Answer 7

Humans generate rules and regulations for human interaction through their actions and free will

Human beings themselves possess the germ of rules and regulations

In democratic societies the establishment of rules and regulations is a natural consequence of human interaction

Question 8

Define Moral responsibility for the weak

Answer 8

Human beings are dependent in relations that may be expressed in paternalism and suppression – or in moral support to the human being that in a given situation is weak

The moral responsibility is adopted in the specific social practice