PHIL 235- Biomedical Ethics Exam with complete solutions
already passed
passive euthanasia - Correct ✓✓withdrawing or withholding of life-sustaining
treatment
to allow the patient to die from the underlying illness or injury
Active Euthanasia - Correct ✓✓direct actions that result in the patient's
death, such as
giving the patient a lethal injection.
Physician-assisted suicide - Correct ✓✓Voluntary suicide by a patient
committed with
the assistance of her physician
Eugenics - Correct ✓✓Controlled breeding practices used to improve the
genetic
quality of offspring
Allocation - Correct ✓✓Distribution of goods and services among alternative
possibilities of their use
Macroallocations (large scale) - Correct ✓✓Social decisions made about the
expenditure for and distribution of resources intended for health care: ex:
federal
spending on healthcare
Microallocation (Individual care) - Correct ✓✓Decisions made by particular
institutions
or HCPS concerning who will obtain available resources; for example, which
patient will
receive an available organ.
Commodification - Correct ✓✓Selling and buying or profiting from the sale of
,the
human body, its tissue to derive from research on it
,Morality - Correct ✓✓A formal system meant to generate co-operative
behaviour and
regulate interpersonal social
relations. Ethics - Correct
✓✓Study of morality
Ethicists philosophers - Correct ✓✓Those who study morality and its practical
application
Three categories of Ethics
1.1Metaethics - Correct ✓✓the identification, explication, and critical
evaluation of
morality as a concept, abstracted from specific content or specific statements
of
behaviour meta (Beyond) where can it exist
1.2Normative Ethics - Correct ✓✓statements, often in the form of principles
or rules,
that tell people what to do or how to behave to live a moral life. Four theories:
Four theories of Normative ethics - Correct ✓✓Consequentialism, Deontology
(non
consequentialism), Virtue Theory, Ethics of care
1.3Applied Ethics - Correct ✓✓Ethicists, writing in applied ethics consider
whether it is
morally permissible for a physician to kill a patient. Looks at the most
controversial
issues.
Consequentialism - Correct ✓✓Right and wrong of an action
Deontology - Correct ✓✓Some things are right or wrong regardless the
consequence.
Virtue Ethics: what person should I be
Ethics of care - Correct ✓✓Privileging the rational, individual and self-
, interested,
account of human nature
already passed
passive euthanasia - Correct ✓✓withdrawing or withholding of life-sustaining
treatment
to allow the patient to die from the underlying illness or injury
Active Euthanasia - Correct ✓✓direct actions that result in the patient's
death, such as
giving the patient a lethal injection.
Physician-assisted suicide - Correct ✓✓Voluntary suicide by a patient
committed with
the assistance of her physician
Eugenics - Correct ✓✓Controlled breeding practices used to improve the
genetic
quality of offspring
Allocation - Correct ✓✓Distribution of goods and services among alternative
possibilities of their use
Macroallocations (large scale) - Correct ✓✓Social decisions made about the
expenditure for and distribution of resources intended for health care: ex:
federal
spending on healthcare
Microallocation (Individual care) - Correct ✓✓Decisions made by particular
institutions
or HCPS concerning who will obtain available resources; for example, which
patient will
receive an available organ.
Commodification - Correct ✓✓Selling and buying or profiting from the sale of
,the
human body, its tissue to derive from research on it
,Morality - Correct ✓✓A formal system meant to generate co-operative
behaviour and
regulate interpersonal social
relations. Ethics - Correct
✓✓Study of morality
Ethicists philosophers - Correct ✓✓Those who study morality and its practical
application
Three categories of Ethics
1.1Metaethics - Correct ✓✓the identification, explication, and critical
evaluation of
morality as a concept, abstracted from specific content or specific statements
of
behaviour meta (Beyond) where can it exist
1.2Normative Ethics - Correct ✓✓statements, often in the form of principles
or rules,
that tell people what to do or how to behave to live a moral life. Four theories:
Four theories of Normative ethics - Correct ✓✓Consequentialism, Deontology
(non
consequentialism), Virtue Theory, Ethics of care
1.3Applied Ethics - Correct ✓✓Ethicists, writing in applied ethics consider
whether it is
morally permissible for a physician to kill a patient. Looks at the most
controversial
issues.
Consequentialism - Correct ✓✓Right and wrong of an action
Deontology - Correct ✓✓Some things are right or wrong regardless the
consequence.
Virtue Ethics: what person should I be
Ethics of care - Correct ✓✓Privileging the rational, individual and self-
, interested,
account of human nature
