Ethical Issues In One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

In this film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest there was so many things happening to these mental institutions. So things that are just not right and other time the Medical staff tries to help them. So many methods the institution use for the patients. Some of the patient’s volunteer and other were brought in. There were some crazy scenes and some tragic scenes, but two have grab my attention because it was the most offensive. One of the sense is when one of the patients would not calm down the Medical staff would isolate them, beat them, and shock them. One of the ethical theory is commanding. The staff is listening to the head nurse on how to treat the patients. They shock these patients to keep them sane. They use ECT as a method to calm them down and program them so these patients have no personality. One of the principle is the Non-Maleficence because it is one of the biggest problem that the staff is not following. They go too far on how to handle things with patients and they are not really helping them, but instead making them worse so the patients can be dull, sane, and no personality. Personally myself knows the staff should have used other methods to calm these patients down and not have doing what they do. So, another principle is truth telling. The staff does not tell these patients …show more content…
Guy Luther would have done all of these two scenes differently because of the person he is. One of the ethical theories to describe Dr. Guy Luther is Characteristic because he knows the right way of help people get better then to make his patients and others from suffering. He would use other methods that would help these patients recover faster than the medical staff in the movie. All of the principles he would balance all of them because he treats people as individual instead of groups. He would find any possible way for each individual has justice, freedom, and personality. He treats his patients as humans not guanine