Bioethics Basics
"the study of ethical, social, and legal issues that arise in biomedicine and biomedical research"
What is bioethics?
The term used for the doctors who conducted experiments in WWII
What are "the doctors from hell?"
A process of communication between you and your health care provider that often leads to agreement or permission for care, treatment, or services
what is informed consent?
Neo is offered a red pill and a blue pill by this character
Who is Morpheus?
a fully implantable, cosmetically invisible, wireless brain-computer interface (BCI) designed to restore autonomy to people with paralysis.
what is Neuralink?
a fundamental ethical principle that ensures fair and equitable treatment in healthcare and biomedical research
What is justice?
This infamous U.S. study withheld treatment for Black men with syphilis, even after penicillin was available.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
The doctrine that all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes external to the will.
What is determinism?
Turing and his team were trying to crack this German cipher machine used during World War II.
What is Enigma?
A legal document that enables a patient to appoint someone they trust to make health care decisions if the patient is unable to do so.
What is a healthcare proxy?
This ethical principle involves respecting patients' right to make their own medical decisions.
What is autonomy?
A study to test the value of different medications, including the antibiotic penicillin. one-quarter of the population tested on were deliberately infected with syphilis, gonorrhea, or chancroid and all of whom were enrolled in the experiments without their consent.
What are the Guatemala experiments?
Fundamental freedoms and protections inherent to all individuals, regardless of race, gender, religion, or other status.
What are Human Rights?
The red pill symbolizes this concept, awakening to reality, no matter how painful.
What is truth?
A research study that tests a new medical treatment, intervention, or preventive measure in people
What is a clinical trial?
This principle of bioethics requires that healthcare professionals “do no harm.”
What is non-maleficence?
What year was the Declaration of Human Rights published?
1948
A scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact.
What is an experiment?
Turing was forced to undergo this treatment as an alternative to prison.
What is chemical castration?
These AI-powered robots, used in some surgeries, can assist doctors with precision and reduce human error.
What are robotic surgical systems? (Da Vinci)
Henrietta Lacks’s cells were used in research without her consent, sparking debate about this core issue in bioethics.
What is informed consent?
a landmark document in research ethics, outlining three fundamental principles for protecting human subjects in research
What is the Belmont Report?
Extreme loyalty to family, moral codes and the state.
What is Confucianism?
The Matrix is revealed to be this, created to keep humans docile while machines harvest their energy
What is a simulated reality (or computer simulation)?
Country with the highest rate of physician assisted deaths in 2021.