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(F) L1.1: Intro to Bioethics and Professional Ethics (Part 1) Flashcards

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Referred to as the “ethics of life”

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Bioethics

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Etymology of Ethics:
The Greek work which means “characteristic way of living”

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Ethos

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Etymology of Ethics:
The Latin equivalent of ethos

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Mos/Mores

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Etymology of Ethics:
The Latin word/s for “tradition” or “custom”

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Mos/Mores

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One must _____ their actions and ______ their thoughts in order to gain a balance in ethics

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Analyze actions & Internalize thoughts

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Ethics
Man is endowed by nature with a ______ sense

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Moral

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Ethics
Man is self-conscious of his ______ and submits to the study of doing what is good and avoiding what is wrong

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Dignity

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Defined as the science of the morality of human acts, and because actions reflect the motives of the doer

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Ethics

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Ethics is defined as the science of the _______ of human acts

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Morality

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Defined as the study of human motivation and rational behavior

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Ethics

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Ethics is defined as the study of human _________ and rational behavior

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Motivation

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Defined as the study of human motivation and _______ behavior

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Rational

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Defined as the practical science of morality of human conduct

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Ethics

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Ethics is defined as the _______ science of morality of human conduct

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Practical

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Refers to actions performed by man, knowingly and freely

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Human Acts

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These are also called as deliberate, intentional, or voluntary actions

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Human Acts

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These are differentiated from the “acts of man” which are instinctive and involuntary

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Human Acts

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What is the difference between “human acts” and “acts of man”?

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Human Acts are performed knowingly and freely (deliberate, intentional, or voluntary) while Acts of Man are instinctive and involuntary

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This is the quality of human acts by which they are constituted as good, bad, or indifferent

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Morality

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Morality
Whatever is good is described as ______

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Moral

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Morality
Whatever is bad is described as ______

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Immoral

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Morality
Whatever is indifferent is described as ______

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Amoral (in between)

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This is the quality of human acts whereby it measures up to what it should be as a step towards the objective last end of human action, or fails so to measure up

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Morality

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Morality consists of the relation existing between ______ and ________

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Human Acts & Norm of Morality Ethics

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Refers to the standards of morality

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Norms

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Refers to the standards or norms of ethics in general

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Morality

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These reveal the thoughts and inclinations of a person doing them

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Human Acts

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These are manifestations of one’s character/moral conduct

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Human Acts

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Norms of Morality:
A person with the habit/inclination to do good is said to be _______

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Virtuous

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Norms of Morality:
A person with the habit/inclination to do wrong is said to be _______

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Vicious

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Norms of Morality:
This word came from the word “vices” which describes a person with the habit/inclination to do wrong

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Vicious

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Norms of Morality:
This word came from the word “virtues” which describes a person with the habit/inclination to do good

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Virtuous

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This pronounces on individual human acts in a word of conscience

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Human Reason

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Constituents of the Norm of Morality:

A law which describes divine reason (from God)

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Eternal Law

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Constituents of the Norm of Morality:

An internal entity which describes human reason

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Conscience

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Human acts are _____ when they agree with the dictates of reason

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Good

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Human acts are _____ when they do not agree with the dictates of divine and human reasons

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Evil

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Morality is a human standard based on what law?

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Natural Law

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This law is embedded in man’s conscience and which guides him to do good or avoid evil

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Natural Law

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Refers to doing an act which is contrary to a good conscience

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Immorality

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Refers to everything which is done contrary to justice or good morals

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Moral Turpitude (corruption)

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Refers to the conduct which is willful, flagrant, and which shows a moral influence to the opinion of the good and respectable members of the community

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Immoral Conduct

43
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This is distinguished from good reputation and is not a subjective term but rather corresponds to objective reality

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Moral Character

44
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This is what a person really is not what he or other people think he is

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Moral Character

45
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What are the bases of MT ethics?

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  1. 1968 Code of Ethics of Medical Technologists
  2. Professional Code of Ethics
  3. RA 5527
  4. 1992 Revised Code of Ethics of Medical Technologists
46
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What organization came up with the 1968 Code of Ethics of Medical Technologists?

47
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When was the 1968 Code of Ethics of Medical Technologists FIRST revised?

48
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The 1992 Code of Ethics of Medical Technologists revision was made under whose PAMET presidency?

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Mrs. Marilyn Atienza (a board examinee)

49
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Refers to the supreme law of the land to which all laws, rules, and regulations must conform

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Philippine Constitution

50
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Present Basis of the MT Ethics:
The 1997 Revised MT Code of Ethics was done under whose PAMET presidency?

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Norma Nuñez Chang

51
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Present Basis of the MT Ethics:
When was the MT Code of Ethics under Chang’s presidency revised?

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March 7, 1997

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Present Basis of the MT Ethics:
In 2012, an in-depth review and analysis was done by the PRC committee’s two members, which are?

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  1. Hon. Marian Tantingco
  2. Hon. Marilyn Atienza
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Present Basis of the MT Ethics (give the names corresponding of their position):

  1. Past PAMET president
  2. Current PASMETH president
  3. Past PASMETH president
  4. Past PASMETH president and presented the analysis based on ethical principles and theories
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  1. Dr. Leila Florento
  2. Mr. Bernard U. Ebuen
  3. Dr. Magdalena F. Natividad
  4. Dean Zenaida Capistrano-Cajucom
54
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Committee on Ethics and Professional Practice (2018-2021):
Who are the advisers?

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Board of MT

55
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Committee on Ethics and Professional Practice (2018-2021):
Who is the chairman?

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Razel Kawano

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Committee on Ethics and Professional Practice (2018-2021):
Who is the vice chairman?

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Zenaida C. Cajucom

57
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Committee on Ethics and Professional Practice (2018-2021):
Where are the members from?

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PAMET and PASMETH

58
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Currently, the PRC is working on the finalization of the revision of the code of ethics composed of who?

(3 answers)

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  1. PRC Board of MT
  2. Marilyn Barza (chairman)
  3. Marian Tantingco (member)
59
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This is the branch of moral science that deals with the duties of a MT to his patient, colleagues, the profession, and the public

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Medical Technology Ethics

60
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What are the 4 important kinds of ethics that we have to apply in our lives?

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  1. Normative Ethics
  2. Personal Ethics
  3. Social Ethics
  4. Professional Ethics
61
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This word is etymologically related to the Anglo-Saxon word for “healing, holiness, and wholeness”

62
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The root of the word “health” denotes _________

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Completeness

63
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Referred to as a structure with all its parts each properly proportioned and in their places

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Completeness/Whole

64
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Health can be considered dynamically as a functional _______ where all necessary functions are present and acting cooperatively and harmoniously

65
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This is a state of being in which an individual does the best with the capacities he has and acts in ways that maximize it

66
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Health in medicine today is commonly defined in terms of standard _________ parameters

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Physiological

67
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Defined by a model of what is physiologically usual or average

68
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T or F: What is identifiably healthy for one individual does not indicate a state of health for another

69
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Health is better as _______ functioning

70
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In health, each organ and system is functioning well and together to form what?

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A single life form

71
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T or F: Health strictly refers to the absence of disease/infirmity

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False (it is a state of complete physical, mental, and social being)

72
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T or F: Disease and infirmity are exact contraries to health

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False (health is optimal functioning)

73
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T or F: An organism can be healthy in a narrow sense without actually being used to its full capacity

74
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T or F: An organism cannot fall short of optimal functioning without actually being diseased or infirmed

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False (can be)

75
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Less than optimal functioning of health can soon lead to what?

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Dysfunction (bad function)

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Concepts of Disease:

This regards diseases as separate entities that can be classified and named like plants and animals

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Ontological

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Concepts of Disease:

This supports the theory that the organism constantly fights to throw off such diseases as alien invaders which disturb homeostasis

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Ontological

78
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Concepts of Disease:

This views disease as a breakdown of the internal harmony of the organic system due to the hyper or hypofunctioning of an organ

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Physiological

79
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Concepts of Disease:

This leads an organism to be attacked by external agents

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Dysfunction

80
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Concepts of Disease:

The central tradition of medicine has always tried to reconcile ontological and physiological concepts according to who?

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Greek Physician, Hippocrates

81
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Concepts of Disease:

Health is an internal ______ or harmony while disease is an _________

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Homeostasis and Imbalance

82
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Concepts of Disease:

Death is always the result of ______

83
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Concepts of Disease:

T or F: Death is said to be natural

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False (in the Greek sense, natural means optimal functioning or health)

84
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Concepts of Disease:

Death is viewed to be due to injuries done to organisms from the _______ and not from intrinsic tendencies

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Environment

85
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Ontological Theory of Disease:

One that maintains itself perpetually when not disturbed but has its limits to its power of self-maintenance

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Homeostatic System

86
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Ontological Theory of Disease:

When the environment is altered beyond a certain normal range, the organism is unable to _______

87
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Why is ethics a practical science:

It is ______ because it implies direction

88
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Why is ethics a practical science:

It is a ______ because it deals with a complete and systematically arranged body of data and presents the reasons which show these data to be true

89
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Why is ethics a practical science:

It is ______ because it is related to the dictates of reason and how it should be

90
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Why is ethics a practical science:

It is ______ because it deals with deliberate and free human activity and how one should act

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Of Human Conduct

91
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“Bio” and “ethics” mean what in order to form “bioethics”?

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“Bio” = life while “ethics” = morality

92
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This is a branch of ethics that deals with the problems of life and dying, of health and healing

93
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Bioethics focuses our attention to the need for a ______ world in accordance with the dictates of reason

94
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Who stated that our main concern and perspective should be the promotion of healthy relationships and of co-responsibility in creative liberty and fidelity?

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Bernard Haring

95
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This is an attempt to rationalize application and use of the many advantages of medicine and in paramedical sciences

96
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Bioethics:

A _______ of thinking is called for because no field can claim the territory of life, many specialties and disciplines are needed

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Revolution

97
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A division of ethics that relates to human life as the ethics of the life sciences and health care, both delivery and research

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Health Ethics (old term) or Bioethics (current term used)

98
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T or F: Bioethics and Health Ethics are not viewed as synonymous

99
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Which is more limited between health ethics and bioethics?

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Health Ethics (it continues itself to the moral behavior in relation to health)

100
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A division of ethics that relates to professional behavior

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Professional Ethics

101
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T or F: The practice of a profession cannot be regulated entirely by a legislation

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True (hence why each profession subscribes to a set of moral codes)

102
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This guides the actuation of a professional where the law is silent/inadequate

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Code of Ethics

103
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This implies that before anything else, a professional is a person who has the obligation to listen to the dictates of reason

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Code of Ethics

104
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The Code of Ethics implies that before anything else, a professional is a person who has the obligation to listen to what?

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Dictates of Reason

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