Bioethics

It’s the year 3000, and you walk into a hospital and notice that everything is done using the computers. If someone gets injured, the computer will take care of the issue. If someone needs a life saving treatment, the computer will print out a report for the patient and you’re thinking, “what happened to the doctors?” Back in 2015 there was a controversy in the article “Medical Technology and Ethical Issues” between authors William E. Thompson and Joseph V. Hickey on the R.I.P system; which is a…

BIOETHICS IN JUDAISM I was raised by a Jewish stepfather for some it’s weird to hear that since Jews don’t get marry to divorce woman since the link of marriage is never broken according to Jewish law (Rich, 1996-2011). Moreover, I always ask question about everything and I often asked him that if I could have surgery, tattoo, or get a pierce just for him to react angry saying that my body is not mine but is Gods temple so I never even search online why not?. My major is biology…

Within the 21st century, organ donations and transplantations have made many major medical improvements. The organ donation process however, involves various difficult ethical issues. The biggest issue today is the shortage of organ donations (Butts & Rich, 2013). This issue has inspired ethical principles, debates, and medical improvements to resolve the supply and demand problem. The purpose of this paper will be to explore the ethical issues behind the organ allocation of two organ candidates…

“I have no objection to cloning as such as a technological instrument for medical and therapeutic purposes. As in all these cases, what must govern one 's decisions is the question of compassionate motivation. However, regarding the idea of deliberately breeding semi-human beings for spare parts, I feel an immediate, instinctive revulsion,” -Dalai Lama. Cloning should be regulated by a moral compass to prevent unethical procedures and practices with this technology. The moral compass should be a…

Is it ethical to withhold the truth from terminally ill patients? What would you do if you were to be given an close “expiration date” due to a disease such as cancer or HIV? Would it be better to be living in ignorance and bliss or be in sorrow and in a state of confusion? Like many doctors agree it is unethical to withhold medical information from a dying or terminally ill patient.By defining the importance of having candor and speaking the truth to the patient, by refuting those who claim…

Today, healthcare givers are faced with ethical choices as they provide services for a complex and multicultural society. When experiencing such a diversity, it is unclear as to what code of ethics they should employ to ensure the patient rights are not humiliated. To solve this, Beauchamps & Childress (1979), came up with a guide commonly known as principles of biomedical ethics. This is a set of ethics based on four moral principles that will give guidance to caregivers’ conduct whenever a…

Introduction The Placebo effect, sometimes referred to as “sham effect,” is an advantageous effect produced by a fake treatment. It focuses on the minds ability to trick itself by using the individual's belief in that treatment. If the individual believes that a treatment will work, it can begin to seem as if it is actually working, and or actually work. It is seen more often than one would think and is normally associated with placebo pills and shots. These placebos do not contain any…

Both my partner, Emily Rood and I are intrigued by the placebo effect in medicine, thus choosing to answer the following question as our topic: Is it permissible to prescribe placebos without the patient knowing? A placebo is a harmless medicine given to patients by their physician to mentally induce healing for the patient. The placebo is purely physiological because the patient believe that he/she is receiving a medicine to cure a discomfort, but the actual medicine doesn’t alleviate the…

In the case, “It’s Over, Debbie.” The case raises a lot of ethical concerns. Autonomy, Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, and Role fidelity, are the four ethical principles involving in this case. Each of these principles was neglected or used by the physician handling the patient’s treatment. Autonomy is defined as the capacity to be one’s own person and make one’s own decision without being manipulated by external forces. (P38 Judson). A patient has to be competent to make her own decision. In this…

The title of this article, “Are Viruses Alive?” poses a very important question. There are very two important terms in the title, “virus” and “alive.” Viruses are parasites that replicate inside the cells of living hosts. The characteristics of life, which must all be met for an organism to be considered “alive” are as follow: cellular structure, ability to reproduce, ability to use energy, regulation of homeostasis, and organization. As stated earlier, the title of this article poses a very…