PHI 240LEC Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Overdiagnosis, Real Presence Of Christ In The Eucharist, Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders
31 May 2018
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Phi 240 Exam #2
Directions: Write your last name in the top left corner of the test followed by your first name.
Failure to do so will lower your test score one point.
Multiple Choice Questions
Directions: Circle the letter that you think is the correct answer for each multiple choice
question. If you change your answer, be sure to cross out your old answer and clearly mark the
new answer. Failure to do so will cost you a point.
1P. The idea of an internal morality of medicine is that:
A. some acts are not immoral in themselves but doctors are morally prohibited from engaging in them.
b. some acts are not immoral for doctors of internal medicine (internists) but are wrong for other kinds
of doctors.
c. some acts are wrong for medical students who are interns but aren’t wrong for doctors licensed by
the American Medical Association (AMA)
d. licensed MDS (internal members of the AMA) are permitted to treat patients and prescribe drugs but
non-doctors (people external to the AMA) are prohibited from treating patients and prescribing drugs.
2P. The claim that medicine is pathocentric means that:
a. the disease classifications of pathologists rather than those of clinicians should guide the
philosophical analysis of disease
B. the essence of medicine is to combat pathology
c. medicine is wrongly centering (focusing) its attentions on pathologies
d. doctors are biased towards combating pathology when they should spend more time preventing
pathologies and alleviating their symptoms
3P. Boorse argues for an internal morality of medicine that:
a. allows doctors to alleviate pain caused by disease but prohibits them from treating pain due to
healthy conditions like menstrual cramps and delivery contractions
b. requires doctors to only fight disease
C. allows physicians to serve patients’ interests in other ways than just by fighting diseases
d. mandates doctors perform only therapeutic abortions
4P. Kopelman argues that normal grief is healthy because:
A. grief is not harmful and diseases must be harmful
b. grief is widespread and there can’t be universal diseases
c. grief doesn’t impair any mental functions
d. there is no evidence of brain lesions in the grief stricken
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Document Summary
Directions: write your last name in the top left corner of the test followed by your first name. Failure to do so will lower your test score one point. Directions: circle the letter that you think is the correct answer for each multiple choice question. If you change your answer, be sure to cross out your old answer and clearly mark the new answer. Failure to do so will cost you a point. Wakefield stresses that a good definition of disorder can help: avoid false positives, reduce the size of the next edition of the dsm, make psychology into a science like psychiatry, laypeople self-diagnose their own illnesses. Wakefield believes that false positives will lead to: increases in stigma, non-optimal treatments, the distortion of epidemiological studies, all of the above. Directions: print the entire word true or false to the left of the true/false questions in the margin.
