Medical Ethics Midterm Question and
answers 100% correct 2025/2026
Kantian Theory - correct answer ✔The Golden Rule": ethics look to the intention of the action not to
the consequences of the action. Emphasizes dignity of human beings.
Utilitarianism - correct answer ✔Right consists of actions that have good consequences, and wrong
consist of actions that have bad consequences. The usefulness of the action is determined by the
amount of happiness it brings
Virtue Ethics - correct answer ✔Moral virtues are understood as morally praiseworthy character traits,
such as courage, compassion, sincerity, reliability, and industry. The primary concern is with what sort of
person is ideal, while action is considered to have secondary importance
Ethics of Care - correct answer ✔The ethics of care focuses on a set of character traits that people all
deeply value in close personal relationships: i.e. sympathy, compassion, fidelity, love, and friendship.
Casuistry - correct answer ✔: Focuses on decision making using particular cases, where the judgments
reached rely on judgments reached in prior cases.
Autonomy - correct answer ✔Personal freedom and self-determination
The right to choose what will happen to one's own person
Health care deliverers' respect for patients' right to make decisions affecting care and treatment, even if
the health care deliverers do not agree
Beneficence - correct answer ✔The action one takes should promote good
Dependent on how "good" is defined
answers 100% correct 2025/2026
Kantian Theory - correct answer ✔The Golden Rule": ethics look to the intention of the action not to
the consequences of the action. Emphasizes dignity of human beings.
Utilitarianism - correct answer ✔Right consists of actions that have good consequences, and wrong
consist of actions that have bad consequences. The usefulness of the action is determined by the
amount of happiness it brings
Virtue Ethics - correct answer ✔Moral virtues are understood as morally praiseworthy character traits,
such as courage, compassion, sincerity, reliability, and industry. The primary concern is with what sort of
person is ideal, while action is considered to have secondary importance
Ethics of Care - correct answer ✔The ethics of care focuses on a set of character traits that people all
deeply value in close personal relationships: i.e. sympathy, compassion, fidelity, love, and friendship.
Casuistry - correct answer ✔: Focuses on decision making using particular cases, where the judgments
reached rely on judgments reached in prior cases.
Autonomy - correct answer ✔Personal freedom and self-determination
The right to choose what will happen to one's own person
Health care deliverers' respect for patients' right to make decisions affecting care and treatment, even if
the health care deliverers do not agree
Beneficence - correct answer ✔The action one takes should promote good
Dependent on how "good" is defined
