Terms Flashcards
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Respect for autonomy
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- Based on human dignity and respect for individuals
- to respect a person’s choice/decision
- everyone should be able to have a say in their lives
- individuals are able to choose actions and goals that fulfill their life plans with the exception of harming others
- a principle of bioethics
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Non maleficence
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- to do no harm or bring about things that may inflict harm/ put people at risk
- abstaining from causing harm to other
- “do not kill”
- 1st written idea of this is in the Hippocratic oath
- ” i will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgement, but I will never use it to injure or wrong them”
- a principle of bioethics
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Beneficence
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- a principle of bioethics
- moves beyond negative prohibitions (do no harm) to positive steps to help others
- example: mercy, kindness, neighborliness, charity, generosity
- anything that brings positive benefits to others
- involves actively helping others
- preventing/removing evil, promoting good
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Justice
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- a principle of bioethics
- people get what they deserve
- resources go where needed/deserved
- fair, equitable, and appropriate treatment in light of what is due or owed to affected individuals and groups
Types:
retributive, distributive, social
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Moral Status
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- a position, grade or rank of moral importance
- to have rights or the functional equivalent of rights
5 theories of moral status:
1. Human properties
2. cognitive properties
3. moral agency
4. sentience
5. relationships
6
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human properties
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- distinctively human properties = moral status
- covers all beings with human genetic code
- good because includes all human regardless of ability.disability and age/development
- bade because excludes everything that is not human
example: animals
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Cognitive properties
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- Moral status based on the ability to think and reflect
- cognition = processes of awareness such as perception, memory, understanding, thinking
- problematic because excludes infants, elderly, and the mentally disabled
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Moral Agency
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- moral status derived from the ability to act as a moral agent
- individual is capable of knowing right from wrong
- motives can be judged morally
- problematic because fails to provide a necessary condition
- excludes psychopaths, dementia, young children, and some animals
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sentience
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- the capacity for sensations, feelings, or other experiences that are agreeable or disagreeable
- broad scope; all humans, animals
- can an embryo feel?
- about whether a subject can feel pain and suffer
- problem with “level” of sentience and significance
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Relationships
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- relationships between parties confers moral status
Example: physicians-patient gives moral status to each as physician takes caretaker role and patient seeks care - problematic because outside of relationships no moral status
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social determinants of health
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- how social location affects health
- race, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, geography, occupation, etc
- the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age affect their health and access to health care
Example: Henrietta Lacks’ lesser treatment because she was black and poor and her doctor not believing her
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Health disparities
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- inequality and differences in health care because of race, wealth, etc
- preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations
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In vitro fertilization
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- fertility treatment where fertilization occurs out of the womb and the embryo is then placed back inside the host
Pro: respect for autonomy, egalitarianism, capability theory, emphasis on personal choice
Con: destruction of unused embryos, not natural conception, pipeline to eugenics
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Dignitas Personae
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2008
- dignity of a person, from conception to a natural death
- perspective from catholic church regarding the moral implications of respecting the dignity of all human beings
- talks about IVF, gene therapy and cloning, and stem cell research
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Human Genome Editing
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- The process by which the genome sequence is changed by adding, replacing, or removing DNA base pairs
- could be used fro treatment or prevention of disease through restoring normal function or preventing genetic disease
- raises concerns of playing “god” and creating designer babies
