PHI 15 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Reasonable Person, Mastectomy, Institutional Animal Care And Use Committee
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Bioethics branches out from the narrow-minded point of view of medical ethics, focusing on the issues rather than the regulations. It also embarks on a more philosophical journey and demonstrates an idea of introspection, questioning what it takes to be human, while remaining grounded and directed by public policy: the hippocratic oath establishes principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence. Instead, it groups everyone together, giving no value to the individual person. There is intuitive thinking and cognitive thinking: the nuremburg code gave an idea of what the field of bioethics should focus on, suggesting many things that provided a basis for future moral and legal documents. In summary, the code introduced ic and requires social benefit, prior testing in animals, and doctor beneficence: the tuskegee syphilis study established a necessity to avoid exploitation of vulnerable subjects and deception in research studies.
