bioethics Flashcards

1
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what is the limb defects called for thamalidehide

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phocomelia

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2
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what are off label affects

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secindary affects like thamalohide for morning sickeness instead of anti convlatnat

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3
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what was LD50

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dose required to kill 50% of test aninmals

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4
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why was thalimomide given to pregant women

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didnt know the affects because they didnt test on pregant animals

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5
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what were the affects of taking thalimodide on wghat day

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day 21 just eyes
day 22 -ears and face
day 24- damage to arms
up to day. 28 damage to legs
]from day 48 no affects

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6
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why was america the least affected drug

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frances oldham kelsey

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7
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what is the golden bench mark of clincial trail

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randomised, double blind and placebo controlled

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8
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what is teh disadvantage of placebo

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its a form of diception

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9
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what is atonomy

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people taht are competent and rational and able to give conesent or refuse

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10
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what isteh ethical principle that justifys assigning patinets to differnet treatment arms of the clincial trail

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clinical equipose

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11
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who are sackler trust

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family owns purdue phrama
this sells oxycontin and said it was non addictive

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12
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what are cohntributing factors to the opiod drug crisis

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doctor/phramacy shopping - relative ease to ontianing prescriptions for (fake) compainines and mainiataing multiple prescriptions

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13
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how manty people die a day from opium crisis

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100 ppl a day

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14
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what caused sucidal thoughts in children

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Seroxat - SSRI

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15
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what flu drug was stock piled

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tamiful, half a billion quid on 6 pages on manufacturer funded trails, the drug didn;t work

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16
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what are the arguments for patents

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  • justice/ reward for inventor
  • promotes useful consequencs
  • new research
  • if not permiotted useful information would become trade secrets
  • other countries recognide patents
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17
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what are the argumnents against patents

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  • materialism produces excessive burdens in medicie
  • unhelpful consequences: inappropriate control
  • impact on research participants
  • animal research/ animal welfare
  • not all countris permit similar patents
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18
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what is consequentialism

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bioethical theroy that be used to decide what the most ethical action is

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19
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what is an exmaple of an unethical patent

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big pharma patented affective HIV treatment at 10-15 k per year meaning taht lots of people in sub saharan Africa couldn’t afford the treatment
they were after accused of racism.

20
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what is teh legal arguent behind patenting genes

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genes cant be patented but cDNA can

21
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what is an exmaple of patent genes

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BRCA1 on chromosome 17, the gene testing has been patented so that a premium price can be charged

22
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when was pay to delay used

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with GSK for Seroxat

23
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what is an example of drug prices being too high for the NHS

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kadcyla - helps extened the patinets life span by over 6 months with incurbale breast cancer

24
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when was sterlisation first introduced in Nazi gemany

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1933

25
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when was the marraige of disbled or ppl with certain diseases prohibited in Nazu genrman

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1936- Nurnberg laws

26
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when was euthanisa for baabies introduced in Nazi germany

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nill to mouth in 1939

27
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who was the most well known nazi doctor and what did he look at

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joesph mengele - angle of death
looked at racial diferneces and psuedo twin studies

28
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what was the first law to codify ethical reaserach

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1947 –> nuremberg law

29
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what was inldued in nuremberg law

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informed consent
appropriate research deisgns
favouarvable risk: beefit ratio
participants must be able to stop at any time

30
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when were universal prinicples that guide research involing humans introduced and what was it called

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decalration of helinski and in 1964

31
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whhat does the aniaml act state

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replace, reduce and refine

32
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what came of the alder hay scandal

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human tissue act (2004) - consent

33
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what do all trails have to have and go through

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research ethical comitte approval
medical and health care products regultory agency

34
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what is teh best ethical practise for research participant recruitemnt

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fully informed consent

35
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what is scientific review

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  • independant peer review process
  • focus on clincial equipose
  • likely benefits of teh new treatment are greater than the proable side affects
  • likehood of success
36
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what is the REC review

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ensures that the rights, saftey, dignity and well being of the patient for the voluantry particpants
- ethical recruitment to the trail
- confidenitailty and automytity of paritipants
- approtpriate compensation is anything goes wrng

37
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what is teology

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right is the good produced from the consequence of a action

38
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what is denotology

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  • an action is intrincscally right or wrong
  • do not consider outcomes
39
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what is principleism

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  • autonomy
  • justice
  • beneficience
  • non-malfeascance
40
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what is autonomy

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  • basis of informed consnet
41
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wha is justice

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the right to be treated fairly and equally with no prejudice

42
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what is benefienace

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the action to promote well being other others

43
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what is non malfeiance

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the obligation to do no harm

44
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what does bioELSI stand foe

A

bio ethical legal and social issues

45
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what reviews equipose after each satge in drug design

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saftery and ethical boards