Schiavo case Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Which of the following is TRUE of libertarians? correct answer: They favor government for defense and for limited public works. There is a breakthrough in cancer research and a new drug seems to cure anyone who takes it for a year, but it is very rare and expensive, so there is only enough for a few patients. Kantian ethical theory would favor allocating this drug according to: correct answer: a lottery. Which of these is FALSE about utilitarianism as a moral theory? correct answer: Vir...

What are the four principles? correct answer: 1) Autonomy (Respecting decision making capacity) 2) Nonmaleficence (Avoiding causation of harm) 3) Beneficence (Providing benefits, balancing risks & costs) 4) Justice (Fairly distributing benefits, risks, costs) Ethics correct answer: Way of studying, examining, and understanding moral life Normative ethics correct answer: How we OUGHT to behave/do Non-normative ethics correct answer: Establishes what IS the case Descriptive non-...

WGU D050: History of Healthcare in America Questions and Answers 100% Pass When was healthcare first created in the United States? 1798 Act for Relief of the Sick and Disabled Seaman What was created in 1915? American Association for Labor Legislation... created in the model bill What was the precursor of Medicare and Medicaid? Social security passed in 1935 What are the three main goals of ACA? expand access to health insurance, reduce healthcare costs, support innovative delivery methods W...

When did bioethics emerge? correct answer: → Bioethics emerged in the 50s and 60s following the Nuremberg trials Issued Nuremberg code: 1st code of ethics in this field Coincided with Civil Rights movement - when parental, academic, political, medical, and military authorities were challenged Invention of life-saving technology such as ventilator or AED What did the patient-physician relationship look like before the emergence of Bioethics? correct answer: Less focus on patient autonom...

Purdy correct answer: "Conception can sometimes be morally wrong on grounds of genetic information, although the judgment will not apply to those who accept the moral legitimacy of abortion and are willing to employ prenatal screening and selective abortion." Risk (there are risks to procreate and therefore it shouldn't always be permissible. Purdy ) correct answer: a. Because of environmental conditions or poverty b. Because you live in a civil war/ lack of social services c. Beca...

WGU D050 - History of Healthcare in America QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Correctly Solved 2023 score A+ When was healthcare first created in the United States? *ANS* 1798 Act for Relief of the Sick and Disabled Seaman What was created in 1915? *ANS* American Association for Labor Legislation... created in the model bill What was the precursor of Medicare and Medicaid? *ANS* Social security passed in 1935 What are the three main goals of ACA? *ANS* expand access to health insurance, reduce hea...

HSM-542 Week 5 Discussion 2: Schiavo Case (Already GRADED A)

HSM-542 Week 5 Discussion 2: Schiavo Case (GRADED A+) HSM 542 Week 5 Discussion Question 2 Schiavo Case (graded) Read the account of the 2003 Terri Schiavo case in your supplemental textbook. If you were the CEO of the organization that cared for Terri Schiavo, what issues would you consider most critical for your ethics committee to consider in that case? The Terri Shiavo case was a difficult ethical situation due to the fact that Terry did not have an advance directive. When there is no advanc...

Module 1 Quiz: Chapter 1 and 10: HUMN 330 Values and Ethics - Jan 2021 - Online Score for this quiz: 100 out of 100 Question 1 2.8 / 2.8 pts Removing a person from a respirator after he has been declared dead according to whole brain death criteria is a case of passive euthanasia. True False Question 2 2.8 / 2.8 pts According to Rachels, if the motive is morally appropriate, passive euthanasia is not morally worse than active euthanasia. active euthanasia is not morally worse than passive euthan...

HSM-542 Week 5 Discussion 2: Schiavo Case Read the account of the 2003 Terri Schiavo case in your supplemental textbook. If you were the CEO of the organization that cared for Terri Schiavo, what issues would you consider most critical for your ethics committee to consider in that case?