Principle of double effect

“May I Lie to My Husband to Get Him to See a Doctor?” This ethical conundrum is about woman who has expressed her concern about the health of her 86-year-old husband. She assumes that her husband is undergoing early stages of dementia and claims that he refuses to see a doctor like she has suggested to him. The woman, who’s name is anonymous, asked for some advice on an online caretaker’s forum. A few people suggested that she should take her husband to the hospital against his will and lie…

Ethical dilemma is a complicated situation that usually comprises an obvious conflict among two inseparable moral principles in which that following a one moral principle could breach the other. Euthanasia is one of the widely known ethical dilemmas over the recent decades. Euthanasia is by means of individual’s competent and voluntary request, physician deliberately ends individual’s life by administering medication with the intention of compassion. On the other hand, Physician Assisted…

Aquinas double-effect reasoning comes as moral questions treating the moral topics with nature of human action, action, virtues, vices, sins, grace and faith surrounding the analysis of self-defense in order of judging human action. Peter Knauer looks at double effect as the basis for every moral judgment. When you have a proportional reason for doing what you are doing then what might appear to be a direct killing because of the proportionate reason it becomes an indirect killing. Or what…

ideas in quantum mechanics. Two of the key ideas involved in quantum mechanics are wave particle duality and the Observer effect. These two ideas have changed the way that scientists think about the world. Firstly, wave particle duality is the fact that every elementary particle exhibits the properties of both particles and waves. This idea started with Thomas Young’s 1803 double-slit experiment. With a ripple tank he showed how water waves interfere with each other, and then repeated that in…

violating the values of the Church as well as moral and ethical norms prevailing in health care. However, I have a difficulty accepting death resulting from the application of the "double effect" principle that is preferred by the Christian institutions over intentional and purposeful action to end one 's life. The " double effect law" accepts the death of a patient caused by purposeful administrations of sedatives to relieve pain, to be without evil, even though the person administering the…

Education should be provided regarding the side effects of pain medication, and the concept of proportionality in order to curb any unwarranted worries regarding the patient having respiratory arrest following the administration of pain medication. The provider should also educate the family on non-verbal…

minimizing dangerous side effects. A three-week-long study was conducted to determine this. The type of study chose to examine this new drug is called a double-blind study. Meaning that ten of the participants will be administered the drug Antaquil and the other Ten will be given a placebo. This double-blind study…

present day society this could have disastrous effects on the mental health of a person of African descent, starting with the unconscious mind. The African Unconscious is described as the collective unconscious of the past lives of Africans, in which all races are said to originate from(Byrum,1999). The african unconscious essentially encompasses a spiritual connection in which information is processed outside of conscious awareness. Some of the principles encompassed are personalism,…

and whiteness was first presented and it was assumed that change of these principle paper properties would affect color reproduction. This experiment was conducted with the help of papers: Chenming double-sided gloss coated papers with 250 g/m2, 200 g/m2, Chenming double-sided matt coated papers with 128 g/m2 and 105 g/m2, Dongfan double-sided gloss coated papers 128 g/m2, Daewoo double-sided coated paper 157 g/m2, Huaxia double-sided coated paper 128 g/m2, Yatai lightweight coated paper with 80…

because all companies do not have same motto and they are not operated in the same context (Pudelko and Harzing, 2007). Furthermore Hofstede’s country comparison portrays the cultural difference through power distance and individualism that has direct effect in the perspective of HRM. According to the diagram [Appendix 1] Germany has the lowest power distance, Japan has the highest power distance and USA lies in the middle position among these three countries. Hence, USA has highest position in…