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Exam 14: Bioethics Ethical Issues in Medicine

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Paternalism, as the name suggests, is that position that argues that health care professionals know only what they learn from patients.

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The assumption behind informed consent is that

A) patients don't understand their condition.
B) doctors might abuse their trust.
C) doctors and nurses often do things against a patient's will.
D) in order to consent to a procedure a patient must be informed about it.

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Those strongly in favor of experiments on both humans and animals argue that anything that advances scientific knowledge or aids humanity is justifiable.

Informed consent refers to a formalized procedure whereby patients consent to treatment usually in writing.

That doctors should tell their patients what they want to know and when they want to know it is referred to as the_________ approach to truth telling.

So called ________is a technique used to deal with overeating, drug, or alcohol abuse.

Bioethics means "life ethics."

If doctors all agree that patient related-information is private then why is confidentiality an issue?

The engineering model of doctor-patient relations suggests that

How will the use of adult stem cells resolve some of the moral issues involved here?

Radical individualism is the view that some patients have very strong and extreme political views.

A ______approach to human behavior control would insist that we don't know what the standard for normal behavior is.

The central view of those opposed to stem cell research is that

In some cities in the US hyper kinetic children have not been allowed to go to school unless their parents agree to give them a drug that slows down their activity levels.

Sexually transmitted diseases do not have to be reported by law.

Behavior control in bioethics refers to technologies that alter a person's behavior with or without their consent.

The main moral argument against the use of human beings in experiments is that

Stem cells have the potential to become any kind of body cell.

If doctors kept patient information strictly confidential there would be no moral issues.

Paternalism in medicine is best captured in the phrase