Western Ethical, Moral, and Legal Dimensions within the Culture Care Theory

Question 1

_______ relates to rules or laws, and sanctions made by a governing body.

Answer 1

Legal

Question 2

True or False

Moral and ethical values and norms together with legal systems, provide frameworks to guide and make moral judgments about people’s behavior in various situations, except health care.

Answer 2

False

Moral and ethical values and norms together with legal systems, provide frameworks to guide and make moral judgments about people’s behavior in various situations, INCLUDING health care.

Question 3

What are the two fields of ethics?

Answer 3

1. Prescriptive Ethics
2. Descriptive Ethics

Question 4

Prescriptive ethics is also known as?

Answer 4

Normative ethics

Question 5

seeks to determine what “ought” or “should” be done

Answer 5

Prescriptive (Normative) Ethics

Question 6

describes what is “done”

Answer 6

Descriptive ethics

Question 7

Philosophical or normative (Western) ethics tends to address two main questions

Answer 7

1. Refers to how people ought (or should) behave and thus the duties they have where as
2. Ask what is the value and desirability of actions, and what relative good arises from them.

Question 8

What are the two main approaches or viewpoints in philosophical debate?

Answer 8

1. Deontological
2. Teleological

Question 9

focuses on the importance of duty and the inherent rightness (or wrongness) of a moral action.

Answer 9

Deontological

Deontological = Duty

Question 10

purposive or consequentialist and focuses on the value (good or bad) of anticipated consequences of moral action.

Answer 10

Teological

Question 11

Principles in Bioethics and Culture Care

Answer 11

1. Respect for Autonomy
2. Beneficence and Nonmaleficence
3. Justice

Question 12

fairness and equality

Answer 12

Justice

Question 13

do good

Answer 13

Beneficence

Question 14

Do no harm

Answer 14

Nonmaleficence