PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Redone, Hippocratic Oath, Medical Ethics

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 2396
• Professor: Andrew Sneddon

Document Summary

Doctor and person with a problem - life and death state - the doctor needs to have the right sort of view towards the patient - to address the problem properly and compassionately and fairly. One side can have all the possibility for loss while the other might not. Complex decision making process - where power and etc. are divided unequally. A lot of ethics in medicine boils down to understanding values relevant to structuring this kind of problems^ Basic perspective - 2 sides - we are all going to be patients. Having an understanding about values relative to medical ethics - can know what to expect as a patient, what to hope for -- will give you some power - more knowledge - an informed perspective. What will make for ethically good medicine. Decision making - complex - medicine - a long standing profession. Revolution -- the values etc. of medical ethics.