Module 8: Bioethics, Politics, and Health Laws

Question 1

Politics

Answer 1

how we make decisions as a group and how we live together

Question 2

Values

Answer 2

basics and fundamental beliefs that guide or motivate attitudes or actions

Question 3

Laws

Answer 3

system of rules that regulates members and has penalities

Question 4

Bioethics

Answer 4

moral discernment as it relates

Question 5

Value-based medicine

Answer 5

puts patients care in the center of all things

- Dignity + rights

Question 6

Beneficence (medical ethics)

Answer 6

medical intervention is for the good of the patient

Question 7

Non-maleficence (medical ethics)

Answer 7

intervention shouldn’t harm the patient

Question 8

autonomy (medical ethics)

Answer 8

right of the patient to accept or refuse treatment

Question 9

justice (medical ethics)

Answer 9

fair access of healthcare

Question 10

dignity (medical ethics)

Answer 10

recognition of all patients’ worth and need for self-esteem

Question 11

truth (medical ethics)

Answer 11

making sure patients are fully-informed

Question 12

Hippocratic oath

Answer 12

new physicians had to swear to many healing gods.

used beneficence and non-maleficence

Question 13

Limits on autonomy

Answer 13

capacity/competence

ex) should someone with anorexia be forcibly fed?
ex) patient could be in shock and not make a clear decision
ex) if a patient wants antiobiotics for a viral infection they won’t get one

Question 14

Universal ethics

Answer 14

difficulty that is possible to formulate a set of principles which apply to all people equally

Question 15

Moral relativism

Answer 15

insist there is no universal or absolute set of moral principles ((what is true/right is tied to sociocultural context(culture/religion) and individual circumstances)