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Philosophy 220
Nurses have killed patients in Belgium without the consent of the
patients.
ANSWERS: True
Why doesn't Smith like the idea of coupling organ donation with
assisted suicide?
ANSWERS: It may make the idea of suicide more acceptable to the
depressed who think their lives are otherwise worthless.
A psychiatrist in Oregon was going to set up an assisted suicide
business.
ANSWERS: True
An Australian woman, Nancy Crick, a euthanasia advocate killed herself
while friends clapped. On autopsy, she was found to be cancer free.
ANSWERS: True
Jack Kervorkian, in the US, assisted in the death of about 130 people.
ANSWERS: True
,According to the interview with Wesley J Smith, assisted suicide could
become a means of medical cost containment.
ANSWERS: True
Smith believes that killing is an acceptable solution to ending suffering.
ANSWERS: False
Which of the following is part of the bioethics creed, according to
Smith:
ANSWERS: None of the above
Smith believes that bioethics has become a sort of secular faith.
ANSWERS: True
Smith agrees with Utilitarianism.
ANSWERS: False
What is the Georgetown mantra?
ANSWERS: Four principles used in the book Principles of Biomedical
Ethics: Autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice.
What problem does Smith have with the Georgetown mantra?
ANSWERS: It can be used to justify anything.
,Who is Carrie Buck?
ANSWERS: An involuntarily sterilized Virginia woman
Who said, "Three and generations of idiots is enough"?
ANSWERS: Oliver Wendell Holmes
About how many persons were in voluntarily sterilized between 1907
and 1960?
ANSWERS: 60,000
Smith believes that the eugenics movement was comparable to the
contemporary bioethics movement.
ANSWERS: True
Smith believes that the eugenics movement shows what happens when
the principle of equality of life is disregarded.
ANSWERS: True
Smith believes there are parallels between the development of eugenic
theory and practice and the way bioethics has come to dominate the
ethics of medicine.
ANSWERS: True
Smith believes that both the eugenics movement and the bioethics
movement create hierarchies of human worth that justify discrimination.
ANSWERS: True
, Who coined the term "eugenics" in 1883?
ANSWERS: Francis Galton
Which is the following about the American eugenics movement is not
true
ANSWERS: Eugenics was opposed by notables such as Theodore
Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw and Margaret
Sanger
Which form of eugenics seeks to eliminate by sterilization and other
means persons who are defective?
ANSWERS: negative eugenics
Although Dr. Harry Sharp convinced the state of Indiana to approve
involuntary sterilization laws in 1907, no other state followed this lead.
ANSWERS: False
What is Social Darwinism?
ANSWERS: An application of Darwin's biological theories of natural
selection in the struggle for survival to the human realm and relations
among people
and societies.
What was a German physician Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland's prediction
about doctors trying to determine whether lives are worthwhile or
happy?
ANSWERS: Doctors would become the most dangerous persons in the
state.