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Bio and ethics meaning |
life and morality |
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Bioethics encompass... |
health, animal welfare, environmental concerns, and social issues |
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All of it must be... |
Hollistic |
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7-8 Dimension of Health |
Physical, Social, Emotional, Mental, Spiritual, Occupational, Environmental & Financial |
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Universal Bioethics Principles (#1) |
1. Autonomy |
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1. Autonomy |
self-governance; free to make choices about issues affecting one's life; includes risk and benefits eg. Informed Consent (if you're at the right age) |
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3 elements of Autonomy |
1. Ability to decide 2. Power to implement one's own decision 3. Respect the individual autonomy of others |
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Benevolent deception |
health care practitioner is allowed to withold information, in his sound judgement base on his professional experience if it might cause danger to the patient |
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Universal Bioethics Principles is... |
study of the morality of a health care practitioner's conduct as he/she serves to promote the wellbeing of a patient |
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Contrasting Autonomy: |
Paternalism/Parentalism - restriction of one's autonomy by another for the benefit of the former |
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Negative side of Parentalism |
limits the autonomy of the patient |
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Positive side of Parentalism |
honest belief that the patient can't come up with autonomous decision eg. Parent's Consent |
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2. Beneficence |
-from the word "benefit" which is greater good -any done action in favor of another principle |
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3 elements of Beneficence |
1. Do or promote good 2. Prevent evil or harm 3. Remove evil or harm |
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3. Nonmaleficence |
somehow related to beneficence but its obligation is to do no harm |
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4 principles of Double Effect (for the greater good): |
1. Act done must be good or at least morally neutral 2. Good must not follow as a consequence of the secondary harmful effect 3. Good must never be intended but merely tolerated as causally connected with the benefit intended 4. Benefit must outway the harm |
