Ethics Midterm 2
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- Bruhn
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Equal partners – do no harm, pts best interest, respect and autonomy of patient, disappearance of MD knows best
Golden Rule - Gallagher
- Distributive justice – socialism, common goods to community
- Verhey
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human values – value system; example: criminals get shot – oath would make you care for him
Human flourishing? - Veech
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– system of values, layman’s decision making vs. MD, best way to make decisions – involve layman when possible
Universal norms - May
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– obligations to patients vs. one’s colleagues – profession
Duty to colleagues should not prevail
God – patient – colleagues
Philanthropy vs. covenantal indebtedness - T. Sydenham
- – God gave us our skills, he is supreme judge, doctor is mortal, appreciate human race
- Florence Nightingale
- – do it for the higher good
- Etzioni
- – avoid absolutism, excessive liberty – it’s a free country, the Golden Rule – old vs. new – right course of action, seek solution, is liberty an absolute, not in our time
- Gilkey
- medicine involves faith in the healing power of knowledge, scientific faith vs. religious faith
- Branson
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MD is the priest of religion, MD losing
Autonomy - Campbell
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benefits – burdens, best interest, removal of life support, hastening death
Premature death of God - Khushf
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Spiritual healing vs. physical healing – must do both
Deal with the whole patient and not just the disease - Sansom
- If you push autonomy, community suffers
- Walters
- Health is a right and a duty
- Callahan
- - #36, the WHO definition of health puts too much responsibility on the physician; state of complex physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
- Van Erys
- We have made idols of the body, health and life – which is alienating us from God
- McCormick
- – all of our actions should be directed toward good - ** an end (teleological) argument, absolutizing autonomy
- Labacqz
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Alien dignity – comes from God not from inside human being, the image of God gives us
our alien dignity - Gustafson
- Value others, technology – theology, one flows into the other
- Stith
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– love, respect, reverenceSanctity of life
Preserving life vs. taking life (act or fail to act) - Ramsey
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– 1960’s renaissance period – canon’s (traditions) of loyalty
Biblical covenant - Fletcher
- Human vs. person – person only if have capacity for thought
- O’Donavan
- – the Good Samaritan parable – who is my neighbor;
- O'Donavan
- resurrection; life does not end, it simply changes
- Hauerwas
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– the suspicious posture – personhood is a permissive notion, permission to exclude those we don’t consider as persons
Caring when you are not sure - Thomasma
- – desire to find consensus – respect persons
- Beauregard
- – why do we suffer? Hinduism, stoicism, Greek, Judaism
- Rouschenbosh
- – thanks MD/nurses for their services
- Sirach
- – honor MD, he is essential, God established profession
- Cahill
- – theological – bioethics, community with others
- Corinthians
- – when I am weak, I am strong
- Bresnahan
- – advanced directives, distinction between allowing and causing patient to die
- Maxson
- – whose life is it anyway?
- JP II
- – do not prolong life, but do not euthanise
- Meileander
- – intentions of actions vs. results may differ from expected
- Duntley
- – MD – patient relationship is covenant, PAS ok if in line with covenant
- Wolterstorff
- – death of his son – even though he dies the story is not over, they may meet again
- Augustin
- – people will only do good – no other choice; think evil is good to get away with it
- Bellam
- – religion is a set of symbolic forms and acts, which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence
- O’dea
- – religion – a response to the ultimate which becomes institutionalized in thought, practice, and organization
- Toulmin
- – science – these ideals of natural order have something absolute about them