Ethical decision-making process
The first step in ethical decision making; involves facts
(What is) Information gathering
This field of ethics was popularized in the 1970s.
Bioethics
This principle stands for a patient's right to make their own healthcare decisions.
What is autonomy?
This debate centers around the rights of a fetus and the mother.
What is the abortion debate?
This theory wants to maximize happiness.
What is utilitarianism?
This step deals with ethical issues and stakeholders
What is problem identification
This man is often considered the father of medical ethics.
Who is Hippocrates?
This ethical principle focuses on doing good.
What is benevolence?
This debate centers around altering the human genome.
What is genetic engineering?
This theory claims there is a universal moral right and wrong.
What is deontology?
In this step, benefits and harms of different decisions are weighed
After WWII, this set of guidelines was created.
What is the Nuremberg code?
This principle focuses on doing no harm.
This debate centers around creating exact copies of living beings.
What is cloning?
This theory focuses on the importance of the individual character in ethical situations.
What is virtue ethics?
This step involves personal biases
What is self-reflection?
This institution was founded in 1969 by Daniel Callahan.
What is the Hastings Center?
This principle focuses on fairness?
What is justice?
This debate centers around the morality of ending a life to alleviate suffering.
What is euthanasia?
This theory focuses on the significance of interpersonal relationships.
What is care ethics?
This is the structured model guiding ethical decisions
What is an ethical decision-making framework?
An influential book on bioethics was published in 1979 by these two authors.
Who are Beauchamp and Childress?
This principle focuses on telling patients all the facts about a procedure.
What is informed consent?
This debate centers around using new technologies in medicine.
What is AI in healthcare?
This theory postulates that norms and obligations come from an agreement with and within society.
What is social contract theory?