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Exam 1 Flashcards

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Philosophy

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The love of wisdom

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Ethics

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The study of morality using the tools and methods of philosophy

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Metaethics

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The study of the meaning and justification of basic moral beliefs

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Normative ethics

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The search for, and justification of, moral standards, or norms

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Applied ethics

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The use of moral norms and concepts to resolve practical moral issues

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Bioethics

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Applied ethics focused on health care, medical research, and medical terminology

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Characteristics of moral norms

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  • Normative dominance
  • Universality
  • Impartiality
  • Reasonableness
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Moral obligations

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Concern our duty - our actions

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Moral values

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Concern things we judge to be morally good, bad, praiseworthy, or blameworthy - character or motive

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Absolute principles

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Applies without exceptions

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Prima facie principle

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Applies in all cases unless an exception is warranted. Prima facie is latin for “first impression”

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Autonomy

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  • Prima facie
  • Self rule/free
  • The right to self determination
  • Basis for informed consent
  • Paternalism severely restricts autonomy
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Beneficence

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  • Doing good to others
  • From Aristotle’s virtue ethics
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Non-maleficence

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  • Above all do no harm
  • From the Hippocratic oath
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Justice

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  • Fairness
  • Universal rule of justice: “treat equals equally and unequals unequally” (only morally relevant disparities are allowed)
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Fidelity

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Faithfulness

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Veracity

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Binds the provider to honesty

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Shortcomings of principlism

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  • No objective foundations
  • Subjective and realistic
  • Does not foster personal moral integrity or function as a guide for ethical decision making
  • The controversy of human life and personhood is impossible to decide using ethical principles
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Subjective relativism

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The view that right actions are those sanctioned by a person

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Cultural relativism

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The view that right actions are those sanctioned by one’s culture

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Moral objectivism

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The view that there are moral norms or principles that are valid or true for everyone

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3 acts of the mind

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  1. Understanding
  2. Judgment
  3. Reasoning
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Understanding

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  • Term
  • Good when clear or unambiguous
  • What do you mean?
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Judgement

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  • Proposition
  • Good when true
  • What is your point?
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Reasoning

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  • Argument
  • Good when valid
  • Why?
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Logic

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The science of good and bad reasoning

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Argument in logic

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A set of statements including one or more premises and one main character

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Deductive arguments

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Strict proof

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Inductive arguments

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A generalization or extrapolation based on evidence, objective, science

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Sound arguments

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Valid and the premises are true

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Valid arguments

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The conclusion follows from the premises

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Invalid arguments

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The conclusion does not follow from the premises

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Cogent argument

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Premises establish probable support for the conclusion

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Why use inductive arguments when they are invalid?

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We cannot test all instances in the past/present/future

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Appeal to common opinion

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Urges acceptance of a position on the grounds that most or many people accept it

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Appeal to pity

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Urges acceptance of a position by appealing to sympathy instead of relevant evidence

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Appeal to tradition

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Urges acceptance of a position by appealing to one’s feelings of reverence or respect for some tradition instead of evidence

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Circular reasoning

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Uses its own conclusion as one of its stated or unstated premises

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Is-ought fallacy

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Assumes that because something is now the practice, it is ought to be the practice, or if something is not the practice, it ought to be the practice

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Fallacy of the golden mean

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Assumes that the moderate position between two extremes must be the best one

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Arguing from ignorance

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Argues that a claim is true because there is no evidence or proof that it is false, and vice versa

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Post hoc fallacy

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Assumes that a particular event B is caused by another event A simply because B follows A in time

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Slippery slope argument

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Urges acceptance of a position without appropriate evidence that a particular action or event is just one, usually the first, in a series of steps that will lead inevitably to some specific consequence

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Ad hominem

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Attacks the person making the argument as a means of ignoring or discrediting his or her position or argument

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Straw man fallacy

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The fallacy misrepresents an opponent’s point of view or argument usually for the purpose of making it easier to attack

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Resort to humor or ridicule

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Intrudes humor or ridicule into an argument in an effort to cover up an inability or unwillingness to respond appropriately to an opposing position

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Why study ethical theories?

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  • They help us understand the ethical frameworks of other people
  • They help us understand our own moral foundations
  • Enable us to make the best rational ethical decision possible
  • Useful when you need to explain your course of action
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Utilitarianism

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  • The greatest good for the greatest number of people
    Weakness:
  • No action in and of itself is wrong
  • We cannot force the future
  • Who are included in the number
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Deontology

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  • Duty
  • An act or class of actions is justified by showing that it is right with little regard to consequence
    Weaknesses:
  • Relativism
  • Rules matter more than people
    Strengths:
  • Treats everyone the same
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Teleology

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  • Goal
  • Natural law theory: human reason enables us to know which acts we ought or ought no perform
  • Everything has a purpose
    Strength: Hope
    Weakness: Complex
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Virtue ethics

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  • A moral theory that focuses on the development of virtuous character
  • Excellence is not tied to results
  • If we have goos character people we won’t worry about rules/laws because they will do the right thing
  • Weakness: subjective, pride - virtue vs vice
  • Strength: power to do the right thing
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Feminist ethics

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  • An approach to morality aimed at rethinking or revamping traditional ethics to eliminate aspects that devalue or ignore the moral experience of women
  • Generally downplays the role of moral principles and traditional ethical concepts
  • Moral reflection must take into account the social realities
  • Ethics of care: the heart of the moral life is feeling for and caring for those whom you have a special intimate connection
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Other ways of doing ethics

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  • Legal/social contract: moral or political theories based in the idea of a social contract or agreement among individuals for mutual advantage
  • Casuistry: based on judgements about similarities and differences between cases
  • Case and analogy rather than universal principles and thought
  • practical judgements about similarities and differences between cases
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Why involve religion in bioethics?

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  1. Religion is important for the vast majority of people
  2. Trying to separate secular from religious is difficult because most people use a blend of secular and religious ethics and ideas
  3. The influence of religion on the development of medicine cannot be overstated
  4. One simply cannot talk about bioethics without reference to religion. Many of its formative voices were scholars from religious traditions
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Christian ethics founded on the gospel

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  • A kind of virtue ethics: concerned with the character of the person and not just actions
  • Teleological: guided by its end purpose, the hope of eternal life in heaven
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Christian ethics founded on Law is

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  • Deontological: it says what’s right and wrong
  • Teleological: guided by an end purpose, accountability on judgement day
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Car analogy for describing the comprehensive nature of christian ethics

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  • Virtues are like the motor, giving us the proper motivation for ethics
  • Rules are like the steering, keeping us from danger
  • Having an intact car is useless unless we have a purpose for using it, a destination, a goal
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5 step decision making process

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  1. Collect all data pertinent to the case
  2. Determine legal and ethical standards applicable to the case
  3. Identify the ethical situation
  4. Options
  5. Make the decision and act
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Double effect

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  • The object of the act is good or indifferent
  • The evil effect is not directly intended but may be foreseen
  • The good effect is not produced by means of the evil effect
  • A proportionately good reason must exist for tolerating the evil effect
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Material cooperation

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  • The more remote the cooperation, the better
  • Extreme duress may justify cooperation
  • Benefits from cooperation greatly outweigh the wrongdoing that will result
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Concepts Christians contract with autonomy

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  • Autonomy is the dominant principle in today’s bioethics
  • Christians contrast: the Community, the Church
  • We are not truly autonomous; we are dependent
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Secular view of personhood

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  • Humans with capabilities
    Non-poersons: the unborn, those with disabilities PVS patients Alzheimer’s patients
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Christian view of personhood

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All humans are persons from beginning to end of life

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Christian view on modern medicine

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  • God created medicine
  • Health care providers can be means for God to provide blessings to us
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Views of suffering

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Secular: avoid suffering at all costs
Christian:
- Expect suffering because it is due to sin
- God can bring about good from suffering
- Christians normally do not like it and can avoid suffering, but they do not do sp by violating clear biblical moral laws

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Evolving Concern

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Page 48

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Nuremberg code

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page 50

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Declaration of Helsinki

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  • Recommendations guiding medical doctors in biomedical research involving human subjects
  • It recognizes the need to do research on non-consenting subjects such as infants, children, the developmentally disabled, and the critically ill
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Belmont report

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  • Respect for persons
  • Beneficence
  • Justice
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Institutional review board

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  • Established to give peer and ethical review of human subject research
  • Main purpose: to review research and determine if the rights and welfare of human subjects involved in research are adequately protected
  • Secondary roles: to protect researchers, institution, and the Church
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Oversight of human subject research

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  • Office for human research protections (OHRP)
  • 45 CFR 46 - basic ploy for protection of human research subjects
  • All government departments adopt same rules on human subject research
  • Applicable state laws
  • Institutional policies and procedures
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Two questions IRBs need to ask

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  • Is the project human subject research?
  • If yes, what level of human subject research does this protocol fall under?
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Levels of IRB review of studies

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  • Full board review: studies involving greater than minimal risk or deception
  • Expedited review: not greater than minimal risk, 9 categories defined
  • Exempt: still reviewed by IRB
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Ways consent can be given without a written consent form

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  1. Describes study on first page
  2. A script is read before the survey is distributed
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Cautions of human subject research

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  1. Research on children and those who cannot give informed consent
  2. Research on human embryos and fetuses
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Stages of clinical trials

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  1. Tests the drug in a few people for safety and adverse reactions and ascertains safe and unsafe doses
  2. Investigators give the drug to larger groups of subjects to get a preliminary indication of its effectiveness and to do more assessments of safety
  3. Researchers try to finally establish whether the drug is effective, determine how it compares with other proven treatments, and learn how to use it in the safest way
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Justification for clinical trials

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  • Therapeutic trials are usually justified by the potential good to the subjects and to the future patients or society
  • Non-therapeutic trials are often justified by significant potential good to society
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Ethical questions regarding animals in research

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  • Should they be used?
  • How should they be used
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Left off on number

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