prelims Flashcards
deals with the application of ethico-moral and legal conecpts and prinicples in the issues that affect the practice of health
bioethics
the area of right and wrong in the theory and practice of human behaviour
morality
if the action is right=
moral and ethical
if the action is wrong=
immoral and unecthical
if no morality (nonmoral)=
neither moral and ethical; neither right or wrong
- knowledge, deliberation, and freedom
- done with knowledge and full consent of the will
human acts
devoid of knowledge, deliberation and freedom
acts of human
absence of knowledge in an individual who is supposed to know it
ignorance
can be overcome by exerting some effort
vincible ignorance
can hardly be removed even if one were to exert extra effort to overcome it
invincible ignorance
a practical and normative science based on reason which studies human acts and provided norms for its goodness and badness
ethics
parameter of determining right or wrong; provides norms and standards
ethics
a practical and normative science based on reason which studies human acts and provides norms for its goodness and badness
ethics
a normative science that can be applied to human action; establishes norms or standards for the direction and regulation of human actions
practical science
establish norms and standards for the direction and regulation of human action
normative science
- does not rely on divine revelation
- investigates and analyzes facts
based on reason
they are performed with intellectual deliberation and freedom
applied only to human acts
refers to a situation in which one’s conscience errs or is mistaken
erroneous conscience
- a branch of ethics
- with regards to health practices
health ethics
- branches of ethics
- regulates the actions of professionals
professional ethics
- branches of ethics
- bio= life
- ethics of life; from the beginning to the end of life
bioethics
- branches of ethics
- care of the patient from womb to tomb
ethics of medical care
bioethics was concerned with ethical problems associated with medical practice
initial stage
expanded to include social issued related to health, animal welfare and concerns
later stage
- stage of human issues and queries
- contraception and family planning
the beginning of life
- stage of human issues and queries
- genetic engineering and aborting
the middle life
- stage of human issues and queries
- death and euthanasia
the end of life
oldest phase of bioethical exploration
medical ethics
father of medicine
hippocrates
second phase in bioethical studies
research ethics
refers to the use of humans as experimental specimens
biomedical research
- '’superman’’
- philosopher who strengthened Hitler’s conviction that the german is the super race
Friedrish Nietzsche
third stage in the development of bioethical inquiry
public policy
