Ethics Issues on Death and Dying Flashcards
was 75 years old in April 1960 when she consulted her personal physician, Dr. David Gurewitsch (Figure), for mounting fatigue.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt physician
David Gurewitsch
A series of abnormal blood tests led Gurewitsch to diagnosed ____
aplastic anemia
He warned Roosevelt that transfusions could bring temporary relief, but sooner or later, her marrow would break down completely and ____ _____would result.
internal hemorrhaging
Over the ensuing 2 years, Roosevelt was admitted repeatedly to ___ _____ Hospital for tests and treatments, which failed to halt progression of her pancytopenia
Columbia Presbyterian
____ produced only vaginal bleeding, necessitating dilatation and curettage, and transfusions temporary relief of her fatigue, but at the expense of severe bouts of chills and fever
Premarin
repeated courses of ____ produced only oral candidiasis, iatrogenic Cushing syndrome, and rectal bleeding.
prednisone
Eight days after leaving the hospital, _____ ______ was cultured from her bone marrow.
Mycobacterium tubercolosis
Undeterred, Gurewitsch doubled the dose of ____, gave additional transfusions, and ordered tracheal suctioning and a Foley catheter inserted. Despite these measures, Roosevelt’s condition continued to worsen.
isonazid
A young woman had just given birth, in ____. She was unmarried, had no close relatives who could help her raise this child, and had a malignancy of the breast
Tokyo
My child is a girl. My child has a deformed ___. That close bond between mother and child is destroyed forever with my death. So my child will never be able to do well.”
hip
In 2008 physicians in ___published an account of their procurement and successful transplant of ___from three infants who were terminally ill and whose parents had chosen to forgo further life-support.
Denver
hearts
Controversy erupted in part because it was questioned whether the infants from whom the hearts were taken were actually dead. They were not pronounced dead based on loss of brain function. The deaths were based on ___ function loss.
heart
have moral standing.
humans
special cases debating if they have moral standing
Extremely abnormal humans, i.e. those in permanent vegetative state or are mentally
challenged
non-human animals
plants
inanimate objects
Whenever we consider our duties to a human, an animal, plant, or any inanimate
object, we consider them to have moral standing. Though not all moral ___
can apply to all of these
principles
Other ___ ____ animals may be seen as individuals that humans owe some kind of
duty.
non-human
■____ are said to have a maximum moral standing. The standing of each is equal -
> human have a ____ and ___ moral standing.
humans
full and equal
What establishes full moral standing is undefined – instead we have beliefs that
others will not be convinced if they do not share such beliefs – proofs that can be
___ or ___.
secular
religious
– Humans and other beings who possess one or
more critical physical or mental capacities such as self-awareness and rationality
what kind of definition of a person
non moral definition
Some humans are persons in some sense but may not possess full moral
standing.
what kind of definition
non moral definition of a person
who defined moral and non moral definitions of a person
Veatch and Guidry-Grimes
Humans and other beings who possess full or maximal
moral standing.
what kind of definition
moral definition
Late term fetuses are not persons because they lack self-awareness (or selfconsciousness or ability to reason). But, since lacking personhood means one lacks
full moral standing, fetuses can be aborted.
what is wrong about this?
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