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Health Care EthicsDr. Richman
Final Review SheetFall 2010
The final examination will test working knowledge of the
material noted below. Workingknowledge is the ability to recognize,
define and apply concepts, skills and theoriesusing appropriate
vocabulary. It also includes the ability to judge when to apply
aconcept, skill or theory in approaching an issue or scenario.
Other knowledge, skillsand theories will also be helpful in
excelling on the examination. The final will be aclosed-book
examination.
The examination will consist of 15 short answer questions and 1
essay question with alimited choice of topics. For the essay
question, organization, completeness and clarityof expression in
English will be important factors for grading.
THEORY
Normativity: claims that are value-ladenie. more emotionalmoral
valences: permissible, impermissible, obligatoryDilemmas and prima
facie dutiesDeontology: the moral value of an action depends on
what type of action it is. (ie. whatcounts is what specific action
the agent is attempting to perform.)
Kantian moral theory:First Formulation of Kants Categorical
Imperative:Act only in such a way thatyou could will the maxim of
your action to be universal law.
Related ideas:o Autonomous action
Informed consent and autonomy: consent is autonomous if it is
consistentwith a patients previous choices
o Rational beings as sui juris: self governing
o Moral agents as self-legislating
Second Formulation of Kant's Categorical Imperative: Treat
humanity, whether inyourself or in others, always as an end in
itself and never as a means only.
Distinction: acting out of duty(from duty) vs. acting merely in
accordance with duty
consequentialismutilitarianism: ???
principle of utility:principle of indifference:
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Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis of embryos (PGD): procedures
that are
performed on embryos prior to implantationthatmakes it highly
likely that the
baby will be free of the disease under consideration.Selective
abortion: evacute vag of tainted fetus post amniocentesis
Savulescu onprocreative beneficence: use all info available to
choose the option most likely to bringabout the best optionincludes
non-disease statesprocreative autonomy:the liberty to decide when
and how to have children accordingto what parents judge is
best.
Who owns my genetic information?The personal account model: Each
persons information belongs to her ad her aloneThe joint account
model: Some information such as genetic info belongs to more
thanone person
The majority and minority opinions in Tarasoff vs the Regents of
the University ofCalifornia
Hope on preventive detention ???
Calculating the value of a policy/treatment decision in
life-years or QALYs (quality-adjusted life years) and how an
idealized rational agent discounts for quality of life
andprobability of outcomes.
Hope on Why undervaluing statistical people costs lives
Hope on the Rule of Rescue and enlarging our moral
imagination
Dwyer on social justice
The Whitehall Study
Overt, covert and institutional racism, sexism and classism
Card on conscientious objection and refusal to dispense
emergency contraception
Thompsons definition of conflict of interest
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