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Bioethics in Law
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02/20/2012

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Greek ( Virtue) Ethics
Definition
- the characteristics that make a person a good human being - service to a social community
- sometimes conflicting role: good person vs. good physician
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Christianity ( Virtue) Ethics
Definition
- cardinal virtues
- emphasizes on compassion
- " some are called into medicine"
- had contrasting "7 deadly sins"
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Natural Law
Definition
- connection between God and natural law
- should not go against nature
- to act rationally is to act morally
- condemned homosexuality
- retribution will occur
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Kantian Ethics
Definition
- Duty
- never treat individuals as only a mean
- Be a good person
- "pure reason"
- "always tell patients the truth"
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Utilitarianism and Consequentialism
Definition
- aimed to benefit the majority of people
- consequentialism, maximization, a theory of value, a scope of morality premise
- goal is to save maximal numbers of lives
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Rawlsian Contractarianism
Definition
adds a concern with distribution of outcomes to equality and freedom
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principlism
Definition
-autonomy
-beneficence
-nonmaleficence
-justice
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Feminist ethics
Definition
focuses on the relationships between people

focuses on family ( caring, trusting, nurturing, love)
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Libertarianism
Definition
limited govt. intrusion
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care based reasoning
Definition
no singular ethical system is complete and correct

may contain dozens of conflicting values
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Generelli
Definition
-researched head injuries
-reproduced injuries on monkeys
-used nematic hammers,restraints, abuse
-15 years of research, discovered nothing
-was shut down
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NIH
Definition
National Institute of Health
- an appointed committee of professionals that used animals for research
- responsible for shutting Generelli down
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PETA and ALF
Definition
People for Ethical Treatment of Animals

-activist groups
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Institutional animal care and USE committees
Definition
-created in 1986
-group of researches who have to check to make sure testing follows rules and regulations
-vet specialists, experts not involved with the experiments
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Taub
Definition
-CI Therapy
-would cut open monkeys and their tendons
-he wanted to make paralyzed limbs work again
-charged with animal abuse, not allowed to touch animals
-was given a special medical center for CI therapy, helps humans recover from strokes/injuries
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The 3 R's
Definition
-replacement
-refinement
-reduction
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Descartes
Definition
(carteisianism)
- animals did not feel pain
-believed you needed to have a soul to have a mind
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C.S Lewis
Definition
-sentience
-consciousness
-mammals - humans are the only self conscious "my pain"
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Sentience
Definition
the ability to feel pain
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Consciousness
Definition
awareness of feeling pain
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Gradient Theory
Definition
how much we associate something being human like
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Speciesism
Definition
-Treating animals differently than humans
-Utilitarian reasoning
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Drug Testing
Definition
a federal law to test toxicity.
- not very affective when tested on animals due to different genetic makeup
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Tuskegee Study
Definition
-unique situation
-falls under natural law
-did experimenting on the black, uneducated, and not mobile people
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PLan for the Tuskegee Study
Definition
-compare the affected to 200 similarly aged men in the same area without syphilis
-deny them treatment
-see what happens throughout their life after getting the disease
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Tuskegee Study: 1920's-30's
Definition
-racism/stereotypes
-"syphilis as a natural consequence of low character in african americans"
-subject considered less than human
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Tuskegee Study:1940's-60's
Definition
-penecilin: cure for syphilis (1948)
-blacks did not recieve this cure
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The investigation: spinal taps
Definition
- 28 subjects died between 1929-1972
- 17 medical journals were written
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HIV in Africa
Definition
-subjects:black,poor,sexually diseased
-consent: by government
-results:ACT works in smaller doses
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Radiation Injections
Definition
(on pregnant women and military personnel)
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The theme of former Governor of Colorado Richard Lamm's critique of the financing of he American medical system is that:
Definition
Medical care is being unjustly funded too exorbitantly by deficits that future generations must pay off.
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The Canadian medical system is not:
Definition
Composed of physicians who work for the government.
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For John Rawls, understanding what justice requires of us does not involve:
Definition
Protection of rights over property against demands of egalitarians for its redistribution, e.g., by income and inheritance taxes.
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According to Peter Singer, a medical experiment is NON-SPECIESIST if
Definition
Where we use an adult baboon, we would use an anencephalic human baby
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Which of the concepts below best supports the idea in the European Union have to give apes in Europe some of the rights of humans?
Definition
The gradient view of personhood.
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What was the final result in the 076 regimen in Africa to prevent vertical transmission of HIV from mother to child?
Definition
After the small dosages of AZT were proven effective, the studies were stopped.
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Subjects in the control group in the Tuskegee Study later received compensation, as well as the men in the other group that lasted over the decades of the Study, because
Definition
They were denied some medical care and some opportunities, like subjects in the other group.
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