Ethics refers to a persons standard of rights and wrongs. Some of the standards include honesty, compassion and rights such as a right to live and other rights. In "Flowers For Algernon" Charlie is really dumb and has an IQ of about 68. He goes to see doctor Nemur and doctor Straus and they give him a few tests to see if he is able to have the operation done on him to make him smarter. After the tests the doctors decide to use Charlie for the operation which should triple his IQ. The doctors had to use some ethical decisions before and during the operation. Charlie's doctors did not act ethically while performing the surgery on Charlie to make him smarter.
Even though doctor Nemur and doctor Straus were kind to Charlie throughput the whole operation they still did not act ethical. The doctors should have told Charlie about anything bad that might happen after the operation, but they didn’t. Instead they went ahead with operation and if the doctors didn’t know what would happen to a human after the operation then that is even worse because that says that they don't know what they are doing. …show more content…
Charlie was the one to do the operation because Miss Kinnian chose him out of the rest of her students that he had and thought that he would be best fit for the operation. Charlie did benefit from the operation, but only for a short period of time. After the operation Charlie and the doctors had to wait for the affects to kick in, but when they did it only affected his brain and not his heart. When the affects kicked in and Charlie went back to his job he had gotten a raise. The other workers didn’t like this and wanted Charlie fired, so they signed a petition to have Charlie fired but instead he quit. Charlie lost his job and his "friends" from the operation and soon the affects would wear off. When the affects did wear off Charlie got his old job back and got back with his
Even though doctor Nemur and doctor Straus were kind to Charlie throughput the whole operation they still did not act ethical. The doctors should have told Charlie about anything bad that might happen after the operation, but they didn’t. Instead they went ahead with operation and if the doctors didn’t know what would happen to a human after the operation then that is even worse because that says that they don't know what they are doing. …show more content…
Charlie was the one to do the operation because Miss Kinnian chose him out of the rest of her students that he had and thought that he would be best fit for the operation. Charlie did benefit from the operation, but only for a short period of time. After the operation Charlie and the doctors had to wait for the affects to kick in, but when they did it only affected his brain and not his heart. When the affects kicked in and Charlie went back to his job he had gotten a raise. The other workers didn’t like this and wanted Charlie fired, so they signed a petition to have Charlie fired but instead he quit. Charlie lost his job and his "friends" from the operation and soon the affects would wear off. When the affects did wear off Charlie got his old job back and got back with his