INTRODUCTION TO BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS Flashcards
It is the ethics of life
Bioethics
The Greek word “ethos” means?
Characteristic way of acting
The Latin equivalent is “mos”, “mores” means?
Tradition or custom
This includes cultural mannerisms, religion, politics, laws and social aspirations of a group of people.
Ethos
It refers to those characteristics belonging to man as a rational being, being endowed with intellect and free-will
Ethos
it involves: right or wrong actions, also includes morality, immorality, the positive values or the negative values, also involves the laws of beneficence or the law of benefit and the law of choice
Ethics
True or False:
In the ethos of man as a man:
He is able to distinguish between good and evil, right and wrong, moral or immoral
True
True or False:
In the ethos of man as a man:
He feels within himself an obligation to do what is good and to avoid what is evil.
True
True or False:
In the ethos of man as a man:
He feels himself for his actions, expecting reward or punishments for them.
True
it is defined as the science of the morality of human acts, and because actions reflect the motives of the doer
Ethics
It is the study of human motivation, and ultimately of human rational behavior
ethics
These are those actions performed by man, knowingly and freely
Human Acts
These are also called deliberate, intentional actions, or voluntary actions
Human Acts
It is also differentiated from the so called “acts of man” which are instinctive and involuntary.
Human Acts
It is the quality of human acts by which they are constituted as good, bad or indifferent
Morality
In morality, good is described as?
Moral
In morality, bad is described as?
immoral
In morality, indifferent is described as?
amoral
It is those we do voluntarily
Human acts
It is the standard of morality
Norms
It is the standards or norms of morality ethics or ethics in general
Morality
It is a person who has the habit or inclination to do good
is said to be _________
virtuous
It is the one who has the habit of doing wrong is _________
vicious
True or False:
Human Acts are good when they agree with the dictates of reason
True
True or False:
Human Acts are evil when they do not agree with the dictates of divine and human reason
True
it is doing of an act which is contrary to good conscience
Immoral
it includes everything which is done contrary to justice, or good morals
Moral Turpitude
It is defined as “the conduct which is willful, flagrant (blatant, unashamed or shameless)
and which shows a moral influence to the opinion of the good and respectable members of the community.
Immoral Conduct
it is the supreme law of the land, to which all laws, rules and regulations must conform.
Philippine Constitution
Revised Medical Technology Code of Ethics of ___________________ under the presidency of ____________
March 7, 1997 and Norma Nunez Chang
Give the past president of PAMET
Dr. Leila Florento
Give the past Presidents of PASMETH
Mr. Bernard U. Ebuen,
Dr. Magdalena F. Natividad
Dean Zenaida Capistrano-Cajucom
Provide the committee on ethics and professional practice
PRC Board of MedTech
Chairman
Vice Chairman
Members (2-3)
It is the branch of moral science that treats of the duties a medical technologist owes to his patient, his
colleagues in the profession and in the public.
Medical Technology Ethics
It is etymologically is related to Anglo-Saxon word from which are derived not only “healing” but also
“holiness and wholeness”
Health
This regards diseases as separate entities (devils, contagious, morbid matters, bacteria, genetic diseases, neuroses, psychoses). It can be also classified and named like plants
and animals
Ontological
It supports the theory that the organism constantly fights to throw off such diseases as alien invaders
which disturb its homeostasis.
Ontological
by definition is one that maintains itself perpetually when not disturbed, the human organism in an open system in constant interaction with the environment.
Homeostatic system
is that branch of Ethics which deals directly with the problems of life and dying, of health and of
healing.
Bioethics
Bioethics comes from “bio” and “ethics” meaning?
life and morality
it is more limited as it continues
itself to the moral behavior in relation to health
health ethics
it is the division of Ethics that relates to professional behavior
professional ethics
is creative because he possesses tremendous bodily and spiritual powers
Man
It refers to those actions man performs knowingly freely and voluntarily or acts which proceed from the deliberate free will of man. Man knows what he is doing and freely
chooses to do what he does.
Human acts
refers to those actions which happen in man. These are instinctive and are not within the control of the will. These are also the biological and physiological
movements in man such as, metabolism, respiration, fear, anger, love and jealousy. It is Involuntary
Acts of man
Give the characteristics of an act to be considered as human act
knowledge
freedom
willfulness
It is the proximate norm of morality
Conscience
Conscience is derived from the Latin word “conscientia” which means?
trial of oneself
give the kinds of conscience
correct or true conscience
erroneous or false conscience
It judges correctly that what is good as good and what is evil as evil
correct or true conscience
It judges incorrectly that what is good as evil and what is evil as good
erroneous or false conscience
It is a type of erroneous conscience whose error is not willfully intended
Inculpable conscience
It is a type of erroneous conscience whose error is due to neglect or mallice
culpable conscience
It is a type of erroneous conscience who is a subjective assurance of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of a certain act
Certain conscience
Is a vacillating conscience, unable to form a definite judgement on a certain action.
doubtful conscience
Is a rigorous conscience, extremely afraid of committing evil.
scrupulous conscience
Is one which refuses to be bothered about the distinction of good and evil.
lax conscience
Every person has an obligation to care for his own health, therefore he has the right to seek and receive
healthcare
patient
Is based on the conviction that God has endowed all human beings with one common nature, which remains essentially the same
throughout all history from Adam and Eve to the last judgement.
Christian ethics
it demanded that human beings should not destroy “the garden of the world and the temple of their own bodies”, which were given to cultivate and care for
Stewardship
it refers to the whole
totality
