Human Rights

Question 1

The idea of human Rights emerged in?

Answer 1

It emerged after world war II

Question 2

The concept of human Rights in patient care?

Answer 2

Refers to the application of human Rights principles to the context of patient care

Question 3

Two fundamental differences between human rights and medical ethics

Answer 3

The focus is on state level action rather than a person-to-person relationship

The issue of benevolence, which is important in the theory of biomedical ethics but has no place in human rights discourse. Rights do not depend on the empathy of other actors

Question 4

3 categories of Rights?

Answer 4

Absolute rights
Limited rights
Qualified rights

Question 5

What are absolute rights?

Answer 5

Are not subject to limitations or qualifications.

Question 6

What are Qualified right?

Answer 6

Are those that can be limited under more general circumstances for example, to balance the potentially conflicting rights of different parties or to reconcile individual ri ghts with common goods

Question 7

What are limited Rights?

Answer 7

Are subjected to limitations in the sense that their enjoyment may be curtailed in specific circumstances.

Question 8

Two types of basic rights

Answer 8

Security rights- refer to civil rights as those that protect the human being
Subsistence rights- would correspond to economic,social and cultural rights

Question 9

Types of human Rights

Answer 9

Civil rights - deal with standards of judiciary and penal system

Political rights deal with specific components of participation in political power

Economic deal with the sphere of human beings,working, reproducing and servicing

Social rights deal with standards of living and equality of life for all persons

Cultural rights deal with the cultural sphere of life including ethnic culture subcultures,arts and science