11.4

• ethics - what a person believes is right or wrong
• privacy - personal details and information being kept private between a patient and their doctor
• equity of access - all people being able to acheive the same health outcome, irrespective of factors such as cost
• invasiveness - pocedures may be invasive to the body by incision or insertion of an instrument
• freedom of choice - people have the right to do what they want, when they want, without infringing on other peoples rights
• IVF - ethics


  • is creating life artificially morally right
  • is it fair for unused embryos to be destroyed
• IVF - equity of access


  • expensive
  • single women and same sex couples cannot access medicsre rebate in the case of infertility
• IVF - freedom of choice


  • concerns around selection of particular characteristics or gender
• AI - equity of access


  • AI increase access to healthcare by providing services where a doctor is unavailable
• AI - privacy


  • advances requiring online medical records and data, potential to be accessed by hackers
• stem cells - ethics


  • cell-based therapies require stem cells to be taken from embryos - the remaining embryo is destroyed
• stem cells - equity of access


  • cost
• AI - ethics


  • doctors able to make human judgements and tailor treatments to suit individual circumstances - would this be possible if doctors were replaced?
• stem cells - invasiveness


  • process of inserting stem cells into failing tissue is invasive
• stem cells are cells that have the potential to become many different types of calls in the human body
• AI is the development of computer systems that are able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligance