Unit 2 - Lesson 2: Ethics In Allied Health

Question 1

Attempt to systemize, defend, and recommend concepts of right and wrong behavior

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Ethical theories

Question 2

While moral obligation focuses on an individuals conscience or on societies opinion about behavior, legal obligations are enforceable by the states power without regard to an individual’s conscience

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Ethics versus law

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A branch of ethical theory that considers the origin and meaning of ethical principles

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Metaethics

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Involves determining the moral standards that regulate right and wrong conduct; the three theories of this type of ethics are virtue theory, duty theory, consequentialist theory

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Normative ethics

Question 5

Taken by physicians and pertains to the ethical practice of medicine

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Hippocratic oath

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The proper form of social interaction in a given culture or community

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Etiquette

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Signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010; makes health insurance coverage mandatory

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Affordable care act (ACA)

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A list of approved drugs from which doctors must prescribe to have insurance cover the pharmaceuticals

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Formulary

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The practice of traveling to other countries for medical procedures due to lower cost

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Medical tourism

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An epidemic, or a sudden outbreak, that becomes very widespread and affects a whole region, continent, or the world

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Pandemic

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Requires that the patient give informed consent prior to the start of any medical treatment

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Patient autonomy

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Takes away patient autonomy and gives the power to medical personnel or the government for society’s benefit

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Medical paternalism

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Authorizes gifts of the body or any part of the body

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Uniform anatomical gift act

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Test tube fertilization, artificial insemination

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Non-natural methods of conception

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A science that deals with “improving” hereditary qualities

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Eugenics

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Encourages reproduction by those considered genetically superior

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Positive eugenics

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Limits or discourages reproduction by those considered genetically inferior

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Negative eugenics

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A medical technique used to test DNA in amniotic fluid; allows physicians to identify genetic abnormalities before birth

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Amniocentesis

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In 1973, in a landmark decision regarding abortion, the US Supreme Court applied the right to privacy to abortion

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Row versus Wade

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Laws that make causing the death of a fetus a crime separate and independent from any crime committed against the woman carrying the fetus

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Fetal homicide laws

Question 21

A parents claim against a doctor for damages caused by the birth of a child that occur when a doctor fails to detect and disclose a child’s birth defects in time to permit abortion

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Wrongful birth

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Instructions people may give regarding their wishes concerning medical treatment in the event that they are unable to make those decisions for themselves ( e.g. due to being unconscious or mentally incompetent)

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Advance medical directives

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Prevents efforts to resuscitate those who have exhibited the signs of death; doesn’t go into affect until the person is permanently unconscious without realistic hope of recovery

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Do not resuscitate(DNR) Order

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Authorizes a person to make medical decisions for a patient when the patient is unable to do so

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Durable power of attorney(DPA)

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Occurs when a patient takes actions to terminate his or her life using means supplied by someone else

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Assisted suicide

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Occurs when a person takes an action that causes the death of another person; sometimes called “mercy killing”

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Euthanasia

Question 27

Pertains to the character of a person as displayed by the virtues that he or she possesses

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Virtue theory

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Pertains to a person‘s obligations from the standpoint of morality

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Duty theory

Question 29

Based on the consequences of people’s actions based on their own ethics and morals

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Consequentialist theory