MEDRADSC 3Y03- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 87 pages long!)

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Definitions: ethics : an area of study that deals with ideas about what is good and bad behaviour. Bioethics- life ethics : medical ethics- ethics of the physician patient relationship, bioethics is a general category which medical ethics is a subset, term used interchangeably (bioethics/medical ethics) Bioethics is brought about by advances in biology and medicine. Bioethics is a demi-discipline: collect a plethora of facts. Listen to each other and other advisors. Move issue being debating towards closure: public discourse. Uses reports and publications as part of discussion. Physician behaviours (medical ethics) with patients has been around since. Between 1962-1976: 1962 life magazine article on seattle artificial kidney program, 1972 the tuskegee syphilis study exposed, 1973 roe v. wade, 1973 fetal tissue debate, 1975 the national commission for the protection of human subjects of. Assistant secretary for health and scientific affairs appoint an ad hoc advisory.