Health Sciences 2610F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: The Need, Descriptive Ethics, Feminist Ethics
26 Mar 2017
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History and theories biomedical ethics began int he fth century b. c. e in the school of hippocrates: many doctors when they graduate from medical school take the hippocratic oath. Immanuel kant"s principle of respect for persons as autonomous ends-in- themselves. 1960, the availability of dialysis for people in chronic kidney failure made it possible to purify the blood of patients who otherwise would have died. 2. impartiality reasons for action assume that each persons needs and interests are equally important and that claims of all people are given equal weight. The four principles are prima facie: consequentialism de nes the rights or wrongness of an action in terms of consequences, actions are justi ed by the amount of goods they bring about. The most familiar form of consequentialism is utilitarianism. It says that one should act to promote the greatest good for the greatest number.
