Chapeter 2

Question 0

Utilitarianism look at allocating medical goods?

Answer 0

Distribute to make the greatest happiness, so give more to people who will make society better

Question 1

How does hippocratic medicine view death?

Answer 1

A part of life, it’s inevitable

Question 2

How does deontology looks allocating scarce resources, since it claims equality for all?

Answer 2

First come first serve or random distribution

Question 3

How would virtue theory look at allocating scarce medical resources?

Answer 3

Resources allocated based on quality of life

Inessential medical care always is secondary

Question 4

How would feminist/care ethics allocate scarce resources?

Answer 4

Would question some one removed from the situation, like the autonomous actor
Pay for expensive end of life care
Living tissue donations

Question 5

What is benefit of hippocratic medicine?

Answer 5

Acceptance of human frailty

Question 6

Believed the body was a mechanical phenomenon

Answer 6

Sir Francis Bacon

Question 7

What did Bacon believe science was?

Answer 7

Science is exercising dominion and control over nature

Question 8

Define teleology

Answer 8

The study of evidences and design and nature

Question 9

Define consequentialism

Answer 9

Ethical theories holding that the ends justify the means