Bioethics

Question 1

wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another person, property, and reputation

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tort

Question 2

failure of a professional person, as a physician or lawyer, to render proper services

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malpractice

Question 3

failure to exercise that degree of care

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negligence

Question 4

refers to wholeness, capacity of a man/woman to meet one’s biological, psychological, social and spiritual needs in relation to God, oneself, others and one’s environment.

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health

Question 5

a period of sickness affecting the body or mind

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illness

Question 6

study of the ethical and moral implications of new biological discoveries and biomedical advances, as in the field of genetic engineering and drug research

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bioethics

Question 7

it is a branch of study dealing with what is the proper course of action for man

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ethics

Question 8

is the practical judgment of a reason upon an individual act as good and to be performed or evil and to be avoided

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conscience

Question 9

in health, it is the caring, not destroying of man’s body in reproductive technology and terminal illness. it is the correction of defect and not merely perceived body improvements in constructive and cosmetic surgery

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stewardship

Question 10

commits to bodily integrity functions and correlative prohibition of mutilation

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totality

Question 11

an act that has both good and bad effects

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double effect

Question 12

is to be one with others

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solidarity

Question 13

every creature should be trusted with the function he is capable of performing

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subsidiarity

Question 14

approaches to justice:

according to which the rightness or wrongness of an action should be judged by its consequences

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utilitarian

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approaches to justice:

favors equality for all people

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egalitarian

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approaches to justice:

upholds liberty as its principle - justice is served

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libertarian

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approaches to justice:

what is valued by the community determines what is just

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communitarian

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approaches to justice:

what is due depends on what has been given/received.

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equity

Question 19

approaches to justice:

justice is doing to others what one would have them do to oneself

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natural law

Question 20

through marital act is the only moral setting for the generation of children

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natural reproduction

Question 21

all life from the moment of conception is and through all subsequent stages, is sacred

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inviolability of life

Question 22

violations arise in:

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• surgical sterility
• substitution of reproduction
• use of hormones, intra-uterine devices
• donation of sperms or eggs
• surrogate motherhood
• genetic manipulation

Question 23

end of life:

is an action or omission which of itself or by intention, causes death

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euthanasia

Question 24

end of life:

patients who see themselves as a burden to others are guilty to be alive

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hedonism

Question 25

end of life:

the emphasis of efficiency and cost-effectiveness in healthcare and the grief and guilt that preoccupy patients frequently result in the devaluing of the dying patients who is treated as an object with no decision-making power

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autonomy

Question 26

end of life:

delaying or postponing death beyond its natural time by all means available

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dysthanasia

Question 27

end of life:

allowing death as its natural time

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orthothanasia