Health Sciences 2610F/G Lecture Notes - John Stuart Mill, Prima Facie, Jeremy Bentham
15 Apr 2013
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History of medical ethics: i will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury or wrongdoing. , primum non nocere, first, do no harm. Modern principles: non maleficence do no harm, beneficence benefit others, bioethics is the study of the ethical dimensions of medicine and the biological science . Ethical theories: help us determine, 1) which actions are obligatory, 2) which actions are permitted, 3) which actions are prohibited. Types of ethical theories: applied ethics, normative ethics, metaethics, descriptive ethics. Consequentialism: an action is morally right if and only if it produces the best consequences out of all alternative actions. Act-utilitarianism: an action is morally right if and only if that action creates more happiness than any other alternative, happiness = pleasure in the absence of pain. John stuart mill (1806-1873: utilitarianism, the subjection of women, on liberty. Problems with utilitarianism: 1) real distinction between people.
