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Title: Ethics


1
Ethics
  • Theories and Principles

2
Aims
  • Definition
  • Scope
  • Theories and principles

3
Relevance of Ethics
  • Public profile/ Awareness/ Policy
  • Frozen embryos
  • Transplant funding
  • Euthanasia
  • Consent
  • Resuscitation
  • ..

4
Relevance of Ethics
  • 2)Technology
  • 3)Information Better/worse

5
History and Scope
  • Socrates
  • Aristotle
  • Hippocrates
  • Nuremberg
  • Tuskogee

6
Primary Theory
  • Deontological
  • Utilitarian (Consequentialist)

7
Operational Principles
  1. Beneficence
  2. Non-Maleficence
  3. Autonomy
  4. Truth telling
  5. Confidentiality
  6. Preservation of Life
  7. Distributive Justice

8
Autonomy Competence
  1. Capacity
  2. Consistency
  3. Consequences

9
Beneficence, Non-Maleficence
  • 1)Is the patient your only concern?
  • (conflict with utility?)
  • 2)Do we always know what is good for the patient?

10
Truth TellingIn much wisdom is much
sorrow and he that increases knowledge increases
sorrows(Ecclesiastics 118)
11
Confidentiality
  • Trust
  • Clash abuse
  • Should patients have access to their notes?

12
Preservation of Life
  • When does life begin?
  • Can we assess another persons quality of life?

13
Euthanasia
  • Active active intervention to end life
  • Passive withholding treatment
  • Voluntary
  • Doctor assisted suicide
  • Non-voluntary ending life without consent of
    the patient
  • Involuntary ending life against a patients will

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Distributive Justice
  • When resources are scarce
  • Pandemic
  • Economic catastrophe
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