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Charlie Gordon is a very unique human being. He is 37 years old, and he lives in New York. All he wants to do is be smart, because he is not the smartest person in the world. His IQ is 68, so he really wanted to be smart, and fit in with everybody. He is going to have a operation, done to him by two doctors, to make him smarter. Were the doctors being ethical when they wanted Charlie to do the operation, or was it just for science? Ethics is two things. The study of and development of one's ethic standards. The second part of ethics is the well-founded of right and wrong of what a human can do. For example: benefits, fairness, virtues, and obligations. Charlie Gordon's doctors did not act ethically when they preformed the surgery to make him smarter. …show more content…
The doctors also did the testing just for science. They didn’t care if Charlie got smarter or not, all they cared about was getting rich and famous. When Charlie was getting dumb again, dumber than he was before, the doctors didn’t even try to help him. They only cared that the test didn’t work so they moved on the next experiment that they had planned. For example when Mrs. Kinnian checked on Charlie after he turned dumb again, the doctors didn’t care to even come to check on him. For example, in the article Ethics In Medicine it states "What are the goals of treatment?" (Siegler). The doctors had no goals for Charlie, only for the result of the testing. This is one reason why the doctors were not being ethical when they recruited Charlie to be there tester. They weren't going to help him if the test failed, and made Charlie dumb
Charlie Gordon is a very unique human being. He is 37 years old, and he lives in New York. All he wants to do is be smart, because he is not the smartest person in the world. His IQ is 68, so he really wanted to be smart, and fit in with everybody. He is going to have a operation, done to him by two doctors, to make him smarter. Were the doctors being ethical when they wanted Charlie to do the operation, or was it just for science? Ethics is two things. The study of and development of one's ethic standards. The second part of ethics is the well-founded of right and wrong of what a human can do. For example: benefits, fairness, virtues, and obligations. Charlie Gordon's doctors did not act ethically when they preformed the surgery to make him smarter. …show more content…
The doctors also did the testing just for science. They didn’t care if Charlie got smarter or not, all they cared about was getting rich and famous. When Charlie was getting dumb again, dumber than he was before, the doctors didn’t even try to help him. They only cared that the test didn’t work so they moved on the next experiment that they had planned. For example when Mrs. Kinnian checked on Charlie after he turned dumb again, the doctors didn’t care to even come to check on him. For example, in the article Ethics In Medicine it states "What are the goals of treatment?" (Siegler). The doctors had no goals for Charlie, only for the result of the testing. This is one reason why the doctors were not being ethical when they recruited Charlie to be there tester. They weren't going to help him if the test failed, and made Charlie dumb