Factors in the rise of modern medical ethics

Question 1

Technological Advances

Answer 1

started to have more of an impact than before with transplants, genetic engineering, diagnosis of fetal abnormalities, etc.

Question 2

Seattle Commission

Answer 2

Formed to decide fair organ criteria; huge controversy

Question 3

Critique of “Functional Elites”

Answer 3

Beginning of social consciousness started to have an effect on society with the notion that medical professionals think they have a privileged moral viewpoint to make decisions.

Question 4

The “Healthcare Crisis”

Answer 4

spiraling cost of health care- distribution of a “scarce resource”; overdiagnosing led to medical profs helping spiral of cost.

Question 5

Waning of “normative culture”

Answer 5

White, anglo-saxon, protestant elite white morals about what a good person is and beliefs about work were decreasing.

Question 6

Professional Misconduct in Medical Research

Answer 6

Tuskegee Syphilis Case