ethics and healthcare Flashcards
is that quality of human acts where the acts could either be good
or right, evil or wrong.
Morality
is the witness and deposit of our moral life”
law
reflects social morality over a period of
time
law
omething men create in their
best moments to protect themselves in their worst moments.”
law
with the minimum standards of human conduct
law
maximum standards of human conduct
morality
“a helpful
starting point for thinking about a proper or ideal public morality for a
society” in pursuit of moral progress.
law
primary source of human ethics?
human reason
contemporary and historical experiences
Personal experiences
Experiences of others
to set norms or standards?
general theories of what ought to do
normative ethics
what kind of ethics?
inquiries are made about how a medical technologist should behave
normative ethics
what ought to be done in certain situation
normative ethics
what ought to be done in certain situation
normative ethics
how it should be done in dealing with patients and the public,
colleagues in the profession, physicians, and toward the hospital as a
whole
normative ethics
professional dealings is enshrined in the Revised Code of Ethics for
Medical Technologists and the Oath of Medical Technologist
normative ethics
question whether moral judgments are objective or subjective.
meta ethics
inquiries are made on the nature of the moral judgment, ethical
statements, and attitudes of a medical technologist including its status,
foundations, and scope of moral values.
meta ethics
What is an ideal medical technologist?
meta ethics
Is an ideal medical technologist a perfect medical technologist?
meta ethics
is the transfusion of unscreened blood unit ethically wrong or refusal of
transfusion based on religious belief is ethically right?
meta ethics
application of normative ethics to practical problems
applied ethics
application of ethics to a specific bioethical issue.
applied ethics
refers to, in
Socrates words, “how we ought to live” and why
morality
when performed by a person with full
knowledge or intelligence and on his/her own volition and free will.
human act
