Health Sciences 2610F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Primum Non Nocere, Deontological Ethics, Egotism

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2610F/G
• Professor: Z

Document Summary

Patients need: statement of hcp obligations and reasoning, statement of patient rights and reasoning, identify and address common issues that arise between hcp and families, patients, explanation of how medical decisions regarding patient are made, codes of ethics are provided from hcp organizations; tend to be very general codes, sometimes the professional code fails to provide the answer. The purpose and aim of morality: morality is formal system of rules obligating and prohibiting particular actions within a society for purposes of , generating cooperative behavior, regulating interpersonal relations in such a way as to achieve that purpose, for people to live in society they need to know how to behave in order to be safe; allow individuals to cooperatively live together, need to be able to predict how other people are going to behave, biggest challenge in morality is balancing self interest with the interest of others.