Bio Ethics Quiz Flashcards | unit 1

Principle of Integrity

Refers to each person’s duty to preserve a view of the human person in which the values of intellect, will, conscience, and fraternity are permanent.

Principle of Totality

Refers to the presumption of preserving intact the body of the person.

Principle of Inviolability of Human Life

The first and most fundamental right of a person is the right to his or her own life, this right places upon all others a duty to respect it.

Principle of Stewardship over the Gift of Life

The gift of Human life and its natural environment are used with profound respect for their intrinsic ends.

Principle of Subsidairity

Requires that a community of a higher order not interfere with the life of a community of a lower order taking over its functions. Rather, it should support the lower’s activity for the sake of its common good.

Principle of the Common Good

Requires the flourishing of the community as a whole, in which the good of each individual makes of the common good.

Principle of Informed Consent

Right of every component individual to advance his or her welfare regarding giving or withholding consent to medical procedures based on diagnosis, nature and purpose of treatments.

Principle of Respect for Autonomy

Requires every person to respect every other person’s self-determination to an appropriate context within the common good.

Principle of Toleration

Those responsible for governing may at times tolerate evil actions of others if a greater good would be lost if evil were not tolerated.

Principle of Distributive Justice

Refers to society or larger groups owe individual members, proportionate to the other person’s needs and resources available.

Principle of Confidentiality

Patients who put trust in caregivers have rights to confidentiality, privacy, to hear truth, and to accurate information.

Principle of Inseparability

Recognizes that sexual activity of spouses is ordered to the ends of union and procreation.

Dualism

Not all human beings are human persons.

False Autonomy

Man is free to do as he wishes to himself as long as there are no harmful consequences to others.

Consequentialism

Judgements should be made with only the end (intention) in mind; a good end/intention justifies the means.

Utilitarianism

Healthcare decisions should maximize the pleasure and minimize the suffering of the person involved. Pleasure= happiness; pain and suffering have no value.

Proportionalism

An evil action can be done if a greater good results from it.

Relativism

Objective truth does not exist: everything is subjective to what is decided to be true at that time in history.

Materialism

The spiritual or immaterial world has no importance in rendering ethical judgments because it can’t be sensed or measured.

Bioethics

A branch of science of ethics that guides judgement concerning morality of human acts in the rise of bioethics.

Biotechnology

Applies technology to living organisms.

Biomedical ethics or medical ethics

What is bioethics known as?

Deontology

Acts have intrinsic moral significance; acts are to be judged.

Natural law

Enlightens our reason to do good and avoid evil; become fully human.

Double effect

Acts have both good and bad effects; learn how to choose well.