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HEALTH CARE ETHICS: CRITICAL ISSUES FOR THE 21ST
CENTURY
,Table of Contents
Part I Foundations in Theory
Chapter 1 Theory of Healthcare Ethics
Chapter 2 Principles of Healthcare Ethics
Part II Critical Issues for Individuals
Chapter 3 The Moral Status of Gametes and Embryos: Storage and Surrogacy
Chapter 4 Ethics and Aging in America
Part III Critical Issues for Healthcare Organizations
Chapter 5 Healthcare Ethics Committees: Roles, Memberships, Structure, and Difficulties
Chapter 6 Ethics in the Management of Health Information Systems
Chapter 7 Technological Advances in Health Care: Blessing or Ethics Nightmare?
Chapter 8 Spirituality and Healthcare Organizations
Chapter 9 A New Era of Health Care: The Ethics of Healthcare Reform
Part IV Critical Issues for Society’s Health
Chapter 10 Health Inequalities and Health Inequities
Chapter 11 The Ethics of Epidemics, Pandemics, and Endemics
Chapter 12 Ethics of Disasters: Planning and Response
Chapter 13 Intimate Partner and Domestic Violence: Changing Theory, Changing Practice
Chapter 14 Looking Forward to the Future
,PART I: FOUNDATIONS IN THEORY
CHAPTER 1: Theory of Healthcare Ethics
Multiple Questions
Question 1
What is the primary focus of healthcare ethics?
A) Maximizing hospital profits
B) Examining moral principles that guide healthcare decisions and practices
C) Creating legislation for medical professionals
D) Studying the history of medicine
✅Answer: B
Rationale: Healthcare ethics centers on moral principles and values that guide decision-making in
healthcare settings. It is not concerned with profit maximization, law-making, or medical history per se,
but with what is morally right and wrong in healthcare practice.
Question 2
Which of the following best defines "ethics"?
A) A set of laws governing professional behavior
B) The study of financial management in organizations
C) The systematic study of moral principles, values, and rules governing human conduct
D) A branch of psychology dealing with human emotions
✅Answer: C
, Rationale: Ethics is broadly defined as the systematic study of moral principles and values that guide
human conduct. While ethics may inform laws and touch on psychology, it is distinctly a philosophical
discipline focused on what is right and wrong.
Question 3
Which ethical theory focuses on the consequences of actions as the primary basis for moral judgment?
A) Deontology
B) Virtue ethics
C) Consequentialism
D) Divine command theory
✅Answer: C
Rationale: Consequentialism judges the moral worth of an action based on its outcomes or
consequences. The most well-known form is utilitarianism, which seeks the greatest good for the
greatest number. Deontology focuses on duty, and virtue ethics focuses on character.
Question 4
Who is most closely associated with deontological ethics?
A) John Stuart Mill
B) Immanuel Kant
C) Aristotle
D) Jeremy Bentham
✅Answer: B
HEALTH CARE ETHICS: CRITICAL ISSUES FOR THE 21ST
CENTURY
,Table of Contents
Part I Foundations in Theory
Chapter 1 Theory of Healthcare Ethics
Chapter 2 Principles of Healthcare Ethics
Part II Critical Issues for Individuals
Chapter 3 The Moral Status of Gametes and Embryos: Storage and Surrogacy
Chapter 4 Ethics and Aging in America
Part III Critical Issues for Healthcare Organizations
Chapter 5 Healthcare Ethics Committees: Roles, Memberships, Structure, and Difficulties
Chapter 6 Ethics in the Management of Health Information Systems
Chapter 7 Technological Advances in Health Care: Blessing or Ethics Nightmare?
Chapter 8 Spirituality and Healthcare Organizations
Chapter 9 A New Era of Health Care: The Ethics of Healthcare Reform
Part IV Critical Issues for Society’s Health
Chapter 10 Health Inequalities and Health Inequities
Chapter 11 The Ethics of Epidemics, Pandemics, and Endemics
Chapter 12 Ethics of Disasters: Planning and Response
Chapter 13 Intimate Partner and Domestic Violence: Changing Theory, Changing Practice
Chapter 14 Looking Forward to the Future
,PART I: FOUNDATIONS IN THEORY
CHAPTER 1: Theory of Healthcare Ethics
Multiple Questions
Question 1
What is the primary focus of healthcare ethics?
A) Maximizing hospital profits
B) Examining moral principles that guide healthcare decisions and practices
C) Creating legislation for medical professionals
D) Studying the history of medicine
✅Answer: B
Rationale: Healthcare ethics centers on moral principles and values that guide decision-making in
healthcare settings. It is not concerned with profit maximization, law-making, or medical history per se,
but with what is morally right and wrong in healthcare practice.
Question 2
Which of the following best defines "ethics"?
A) A set of laws governing professional behavior
B) The study of financial management in organizations
C) The systematic study of moral principles, values, and rules governing human conduct
D) A branch of psychology dealing with human emotions
✅Answer: C
, Rationale: Ethics is broadly defined as the systematic study of moral principles and values that guide
human conduct. While ethics may inform laws and touch on psychology, it is distinctly a philosophical
discipline focused on what is right and wrong.
Question 3
Which ethical theory focuses on the consequences of actions as the primary basis for moral judgment?
A) Deontology
B) Virtue ethics
C) Consequentialism
D) Divine command theory
✅Answer: C
Rationale: Consequentialism judges the moral worth of an action based on its outcomes or
consequences. The most well-known form is utilitarianism, which seeks the greatest good for the
greatest number. Deontology focuses on duty, and virtue ethics focuses on character.
Question 4
Who is most closely associated with deontological ethics?
A) John Stuart Mill
B) Immanuel Kant
C) Aristotle
D) Jeremy Bentham
✅Answer: B
