Name That Ethical Principle
What's in a Ethical Theory?
Who's Who in Bioethics
Night Court... Case
Time to Experiment
100
The ethical principle involves acting in the patient’s best interest and emphasizes the importance of considering medical interventions’ potential benefits.
What is beneficence?
100
The moral theory that encourages individuals to adopt a perspective from behind a "veil of ignorance"
What is Contract Theology?
100
This retired Michigan pathologist made a career of helping people to die, who devised “suicide machines” with which patients could self administer lethal drugs.
According to some accounts, at least 93 deaths were assisted by this physician between 1990 and 1998.
Who is Jack Kevorkian?
100
The court case that determined that when a patient expresses a desire to hurt another person, the mental health professional is legally obligated to warn the other person
What is Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California?
100
The U.S. Department of Public Health studied approximately 400 African American males who were infected with syphilis. Even when penicillin became an available treatment, these men were not treated so that researchers could follow the development of latent syphilis.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
200
The ethical principle that involves respecting patients’ privacy and excluding health information from third parties
What is confidentiality?
200
The moral theory applies that the greatest good for the great number of people
What is Utilitarianism?
200
This person was a doctor at New Orleans Charity Hospital, which was hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. She allegedly provided lethal doses of a medication to 10 patients before the last of the hospital staff were evacuated, claiming she was afraid to leave sick and suffering patients without care when there were no plans for rescue.
Who is Anna Pou?
200
The court case that held that doctors must share the information that a patient would have every reason to expect about risks, benefits, alternatives, expectations, and the understanding of the preceding treatment
What is Canterbury v. Spence?
200
Physicians purposefully infected healthy mentally disabled children with hepatitis with parental consent as it guaranteed admission to the overcrowded facility.
What is the Willowbrook State School case?
300
The ethical principle that provides a developed system of honesty and transparency in healthcare communication
What is veracity?
300
The moral theory that prioritizes the inherent moral worth of actions, irrespective of their consequences.
What is Kantian Ethics?
300
Known as the first IVF or "test tube" baby, now age 40.
Who is Louise Brown?
300
The court case that held that when a physician operates on a patient without obtaining the patient’s informed consent, they are liable for assault unless it is an emergency when the patient is unconscious.
What is Schloendorff v. Society of New York Hospital?
300
Dr. Chester M. Southam led a study where 22 patients in Brooklyn, NY were injected with live cancer cells. According to Faden and Beauchamp, “Southam had convinced [the medical director] that although the research was entirely nontherapeutic, it was routine to do such research without consent.”
What is the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital cancer study?
400
The ethical principle involves the fair and equitable distribution of society’s resources, benefits, and burdens
What is justice?
400
The moral theory that challenges traditional ethical theories by emphasizing the importance of relationships, care, and empathy in moral decision-making
What is Feminist Ethics?
400
The evolutionary geneticist whose work helped reimagine the race concept in the 1930s at the outset of the evolutionary synthesis and whose transformation from defender to detractor of the race concept in biology still resonates with many.
Who is Theodosius Dobzhansky?
400
The court case that determined that a patient has the right to refuse any medical treatment, even if it could save or extend their life.
What is Bouvia v. Superior Court?
400
In the early 80s, UCLA research psychologists Michael Gitlin and Keith H. Nuechterlein, embarked on a study to understand the causes and triggers of relapses in patients with schizophrenia. The study recruited hundreds of participants diagnosed with schizophrenia, and controversially, removed them from their medication regimen. However, the researchers failed to provide a proper plan for the patients to return to their medication or adequate protection for the patients during the study.
What is the UCLA Schizophrenia Study?
500
The ethical principle involves respecting individuals’ right to decide about their healthcare treatment options and emphasizes informed consent.
What is autonomy?
500
The moral theory that focuses on character traits that contribute to moral excellence and flourishing
What is Virtue Ethics?
500
A German philosopher who emphasized the importance of moral principles, duties, and rationality in ethical decision-making.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
500
The court case that held that there was no duty to obtain informed consent form people who donated blood and other samples to research, even when the research resulted in a patent.
What is Greenberg v. Miami Children’s Hospital Research Institute?
500
A series of total and partial body irradiation tests performed on at least 90 patients with advanced cancer at the Cincinnati General Hospital, now called University Hospital. Led by radiologist Dr. Eugene L. Saenger, the experiments were funded in part by the Defense Atomic Support Agency within the Department of Defense to study how soldiers in nuclear war would be affected by large doses of radiation.
What is the Cincinnati Whole Body Radiation study?