Ethics for Bioscience

• Bioethics Approach

  • The approach which healthcare providers and researchers use to guide them in dealing with patients
  • 'code of conduct'
  • Autonomy, Beneficence/non-maleficence, Justice
• 1)Autonomy

  1. Personhood
  2. Capacity to decide
  3. The right to be informed
  4. Privacy
  5. Confidentiality
  6. Free will
• Autonomy: Be your own person
• 1)Autonomy

  1.Personhood:

  • self-determination and free will
  • ability to create one's future and fate
• 1)Authonomy

  2. Capacity to decide

  • Deciding to do something
  • Factors affecting capacity to decide -> Age, Cognition, Legal age
  • Physical limitation and Social standing
• 1)Autonomy

  3. The right to be informed

  To be informed -

  • Cognitive ability
  • Language ability
  • Type of information being given
• 1)Autonomy

  4. Privacy

  • Ability to express information selectively
  • Reveal limited information
• 1)Autonomy

  5. Confidentiality

  Duty of confidentiality (Protection of Private)

  • Obligation of keeping secret/private (Providers of responsibility)
• 1)Autonomy

  6. Free will

  • Can be complimised
  • Can be taken away by authorities
  • Vulnerable by some situation
  • Free to decide / do or not do / change your mind
• 2) Beneficence and non-maleficence

  Benefits:

  • Providers of health care are obligated to do this
  • Best of that person depend of autonomy

  Harm
• 2) Beneficence and non-maleficience

  1. No harm
  2. Equal Benefit Equal Harm
  3. Little benefit Great Harm
• 2) Beneficence and non-maleficence

  1.No harm

  • Standard of Care treatments of diseases
  • What aim for
• 2) Beneficence and non-maleficence

  2. Equal Benefit Equal Harm

  • Balancing Benefit and Harm
  • Cutting edge therapy with known serious adverse affects
• 2) Beneficence and non-maleficence

  3. Little benefit Great Harm

  • Testing a novel drug on prisoners
• 3) Justice

  Burden:

  • Possibility of harm
  • Consumption of personal resources
  • Psychological burden

  Benefit: