intro to bioethics

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  • Bioethics
    Ethics of life
  • Ethics
    The study of right or wrong actions, including morality, immorality, positive and negative values, laws of beneficence, choice, compliance, rules and regulations
  • Ethos of man as man
    • He is able to distinguish between good and evil, right or wrong, moral or immoral
    • He feels within himself an obligation to do what is good and to avoid what is evil
    • He feels himself responsible for his actions, expecting reward or punishment
  • Man is endowed by nature with a moral sense and submits to the study of doing what is good and avoiding what is wrong
  • Ethics is the science of the morality of human acts, reflecting the motives of the doer
  • Ethics is the study of human motivation and rational behavior
  • Ethics is the practical science of morality of human conduct
  • Human acts
    Actions performed by man, knowingly and freely, also called deliberate, intentional or voluntary actions
  • Morality
    The quality of human acts by which they are constituted as good, bad or indifferent
  • Moral
    That which is good
  • Immoral
    That which is bad
  • Amoral
    That which is indifferent, in between moral and immoral
  • Norm of morality
    The relation between human acts and the standards of morality
  • Virtuous
    Having the habit or inclination to do good
  • Vicious
    Having the habit of doing wrong
  • Eternal law

    Divine reason, from God
  • Conscience
    Human reason
  • Morality
    A human standard based on natural law, embedded in man's conscience, guiding him to do good and avoid evil
  • Immorality
    Doing an act contrary to good conscience
  • Moral turpitude
    Everything done contrary to justice or good morals
  • Immoral conduct
    Willful, flagrant conduct that shows moral influence against the opinion of the good and respectable members of the community
  • Moral character
    What a person really is, not what he or others think he is
  • Ethics provides the moral foundation in the study of medical technology to guide the student throughout their life
  • Without governing rules, the practice of medical technology could lead to failure, anarchy, rioting, lawbreaking, defiance, aggression, and antagonism
  • Medical technology ethics will guard against abuses and ills of the profession such as dishonesty, deceit, immorality, negligence, slothfulness, lack of diligence, and other forms of malpractice
  • Basis of medical technology ethics
    • 1968 Code of Ethics of Medical Technologist (PAMET)
    • Revised 1992 Code of Ethics under Marilyn Atienza
    • Philippine Medical Technology Act of 1969
    • Revised Medical Technology Code of Ethics of March 7, 1997 under Norma Nuñez Chang
  • Medical technology ethics is the branch of moral science that treats the duties a medical technologist owes to their patient, colleagues, and the public
  • Health
    The state of being in which an individual does the best with the capacities they have and acts in ways that maximize their capacities
  • Health is commonly defined in terms of standard physiological parameters, but what is healthy for one individual may not indicate health for another
  • Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
  • Health
    Defined by a model of what is physiologically usual or average
  • Health indicators
    • Blood chemicals, electro-neurological readings, gross anatomy, histology
  • What is identifiably healthy for one individual does not necessarily indicate a state of health for another person
  • Health
    A state of complete physical, mental and social being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
  • Health
    Optimal functioning at the biological, physiological, social, and spiritual levels
  • Disease/Illness
    Not the exact contrary to health, as health is optimal functioning
  • Less than optimal functioning soon leads to dysfunction or bad function
  • Subjective terms for disease
    • Illness, Sickness, Complaint
  • Objective terms for disease
    • Disease, Malady, Ailment, Disorder
  • Ontological concept of disease
    Diseases are separate entities that can be classified and named