Week 5

Question 1

A term referring to knowing, intentional, or negligent act by a caregiver or nay other person that causes harm or serious risk of harm to a vulnerable adult

Answer 1

Elder abuse

Question 2

An approach to improve the quality of life clients and their families facing problems associated with life-limiting illness

Answer 2

Palliative care

Question 3

Application of laboratory or clinical techniques to gametes and or embryos for the purpose of reproduction

Answer 3

Assisted reproductive technologies

Question 4

Action in negligence against the health professional in failing to diagnose a pregnancy and therefore denies the woman a chance of terminating the pregnancy

Answer 4

Wrongful birth

Question 5

The term normally applies to an intentional termination of the life by another at the explicit request of the person who wishes to die

Answer 5

Euthanasia

Question 6

hastening the death of a person by altering some form of support and letting nature take its course

Answer 6

Passive euthanasia

Question 7

Involves causing the death of a person through direct action, in response to a request from that person.

Answer 7

Active Euthanasia

Question 8

The unlawful killing of another human being without justification

Answer 8

murder

Question 9

Permissibility of acting when one’s otherwise legitimate act may also cause an effect would normally be obliged to avoid

Answer 9

Principle of Double effect (PDE)

Question 10

The action was taken by a disabled child who was born following negligent care of the mother

Answer 10

Wrongful life

Question 11

The spontaneous or artificially induced expulsion of an embryo or fetus. as used in a legal context, the term usually refers to induced abortion

Answer 11

Abortion