Chapter 1

Question 1

IMPORTANCE OF BIOETHICS:

Answer 1

a. Regulates human conduct in the practice of health care so that good may be done and evil may be avoided.
b. Ensures that the purpose of health is being met.
c. Serves as guiding principle for healthcare professionals to observe in addressing health care issues.

Question 2

_____ refers to a METHOD OF INQUIRY that helps people to understand the morality of human behavior.

Answer 2

Ethics

Question 3

The EXPECTED STANDARDS of moral behavior of a particular group as described in the group’s formal code of professional ethics.

Answer 3

Ethics

Question 4

_____ is ETHICS APPLIED TO LIFE. It is a division of ethics that relates to human life or the ethics of the
● life sciences
● health care

Answer 4

Bioethics

Question 5

a science that guides HEALTH CARE PROVIDER toward MORAL ETHICAL BEHAVIOR in delivery of excellent health practices, services to patient, client, family, colleagues and community.

Answer 5

Health Ethics

Question 6

_____ relates to HUMAN LIFE and It is focused on moral issues HEALTH CARE FIELD.
_____ relates to HUMAN HEALTH and it is considered ethics for HEALTH PROFESSIONS.

Answer 6

Bioethics
Health ethics

Question 7

Health ethics is MORE LIMITED as it confines itself to the moral behavior in relation to health.

Question 8

_____ refers to ETHICAL ISSUES that occur in nursing practice.

Answer 8

Nursing ethics

Question 9

It is the division of ETHICS THAT RELATES TO PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIOR .

It is guided by a set of norms for behavior that suit the profession’s particular aims and goals, and which reflect the profession’s values.

Answer 9

Professional ethics

Question 10

quality of act itself; the quality of human act

Answer 10

Morality

Question 11

CONCERNED with the PRINCIPLES OF RIGHT AND WRONG BEHAVIOR and the goodness or badness of human character.

“_____” – custom or habit

Answer 11

Moral

MORES

Question 12

_____ is the PRINCIPLE of human conduct
_____ is the EQUALITY of human conduct
_____ is the APPLICATION of ethics

Answer 12

Ethics
Morality
Moral

Question 13

Relation
- Both ETHICS and MORALITY deal with HUMAN CONDUCT (how people behave).

• ETHICS studies about MORALITY (ethics is the study or discussion of morality).
• MORALITY provides ETHICS with a QUALITY that DETERMINES and -DISTINGUISH RIGHT CONDUCT from WRONG CONDUCT (morality tells ethics what’s right or wrong).

Distinction
- ETHICS – KNOWLEDGE of what to study about (GOODNESS or EVIL of an ACT) (knowing if something is good or bad).

• MORALITY – APPLICATION of this knowledge in the PERFORMANCE of HUMAN ACT (actually doing the right or wrong thing in real life).
• ETHICS provides LEARNING about the MORALITY of HUMAN CONDUCT (ethics teaches about right and wrong behavior).
• MORALITY provides WAYS in PRACTICING what is LEARNED (morality is putting those lessons into action).

ETHICS – THEORY (the learning).
MORALITY – PRACTICE (the doing).

Question 14

ETHICS AS A SCIENCE

_____ it employs the POWER OF HUMAN REASONING which is a NATURAL PROCESS. It arrives with conclusion with the use of HUMAN REASON, which is purely a natural process. It is not based on the teaching of the Catholic church nor based on the bible.

Answer 14

Natural science

Question 15

ETHICS AS A SCIENCE

_____ PRESENTS TRUTHS that are TO BE ACTED UPON. It presents data which directly imply and indicate direction for human conduct. ETHICS IS NOT STUDIED FOR THE LOVE OF LEARNING. All are BOUND IN CONSCIENCE to APPLY ITS PRINCIPLES to their conduct.

Answer 15

Practical science

Question 16

ETHICS AS A SCIENCE

_____ TREATS HUMAN ACTS. It was PERFORMED, it was CHOSEN and GIVEN EXISTENCE, it was determined. It does not deal with acts of man (acted upon without thinking).

Answer 16

Moral science

Question 17

ETHICS AS A SCIENCE

_____ HELP A PERSON LEAD TO LIFE in accordance with MORAL STANDARDS, and there are NUMEROUS PHILOSOPHIES that concern these ethics.

Answer 17

Philosophical science

Question 18

OTHER SCIENCES

_____ study MAN AS LIVING ORGANISM, composed of cells, etc. (and that includes man).

_____ study ORIGIN OF HUMAN BODY and BEHAVIOR OF PRIMITIVE MAN

_____ study the GENERAL STRUCTURE and ATTITUDE OF SOCIAL GROUP e.g. family, government, working class, etc.

_____ study of the MAN’S INTELLECT AND FREE WILL

_____ study on CORRECT THINKING

_____ study of origin and INTERPRETATION OF LAWS

Answer 18

Biology
Anthropology
Sociology
Psychology
Logic
Jurisprudence

Question 19

Ethics

_____ Ethics deals with man as moral being and moral right.

_____ Ethics deals with the principles of right conduct as applied to man of all times.

_____ Ethics study social group concerning the moral and social order.

_____ Study how to direct intellect and how to practice the moral truth.

_____ Deals with correct doing

_____ Deals with knowledge of natural law or moral law common to all men.

Answer 19

Biology
Anthropology
Sociology
Psychology
Logic
Jurisprudence

Question 20

DIVISION OF ETHICS

_____ A branch of philosophy that deals with the CONCEPT OF VALUES. It relates the fields of PHILOSOPHY and MORAL ETHICS. It is concerned with the RESOLVING OF CONTROVERSIAL QUESTIONS of human morality. It defines the concepts of good and evil, right and wrong.

_____ This refers to the PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF MORAL CONSIDERATIONS. It is ethics with respect to real-world actions and their moral considerations in the areas of private and public life, the professions, health, technology, law, and leadership.

Answer 20

General Ethics
Applied Ethics

Question 21

Two (2) forms of Applied Ethics:

1. _____ - PERSONAL STANDARDS AND VALUES that determine how people view their responsibilities to other people and groups.
2. _____ - STANDARDS THAT GOVERN how members of the society are to deal with each other on issues such as fairness, justice, poverty and the rights of the individual.

Answer 21

Individual Ethics
Social Ethics

Question 22

OBJECT OF BIOETHICS

Answer 22

a. PHYSICAL OBJECT or the DOER of the action.
b. NON-PHYSICAL-OBJECT or the ACT DONE by the doer
b.1. formal object

Question 23

SOURCES OF BIOETHICS

Answer 23

DCPAH
▪ Divine will
▪ Culture
▪ Personal preference
▪ Actual social contract
▪ Hypothetical contract

Question 24

BASIS OF ETHICS

Answer 24

a. Man is a rational being
b. MAN IS FREE
c. GOD EXISTS
d. God is just
e. Good life merit God’s reward
f. Evil life merit God’s punishment
g. MAN HAS SOUL
h. SOUL IS IMMORTAL
i. Soul has intellect and will
j. Object of intellect is truth
k. Object of will is goodness
l. Good must be done, evil must be avoided
m. An act is good when in conformity with right person
n. An act is evil when not in conformity with rightO

Question 25

is the APPLICATIONS OF THE CORE PRINCIPLES OF BIOETHICS to MEDICAL AND HEALTH CARE DECISIONS. It looks at moral issues involved in our understanding of life. The ATTEMPT TO THINK SYSTEMATICALLY about options then later choose possible course of action should always come to the best decisions at all times.

Answer 25

Health Ethics

Question 26

It PROVIDES TOOLS AND ANALYSIS and help us think about our options in the resolution of dilemma.

Answer 26

Bioethics