Question

You will decide the moral thing to do in this medical case.

In this forum, you just share your plan with your peers as a way to practice for the final test.

Pay attention and take notes on how they approach this case using the three major ethical theories you have already learned in this class, as you will be asked to apply only ONE in the final exam essay question.

Answer 1

Health care ethics is the field of applied ethics that is concerned with the vast array of moral decision- making situations that arise in the practice of medicine in addition to the practice and procedures that are designed to guide such practice. Of all of the aspects of the human body, and of a human life, which are essential to one's well-being, none is more important than one's health. Advancements in reproductive and genetic knowledge as well as innovations in reproductive and genetic technologies. Other areas of moral consern includes the clinical relationship between health care professional and patient;biomedical and human subject research; the harvesting and transplantation of human organs; euthenasia;abortion;and the allocation of healthcare services.Essentil to the comprehension of moral issues that arise in the context of the provision of health care in an undrstanding of the most ethical principles and methods of moral decision- making. To the degree to which moral issues concerning health care can be clarified, and thereby better understood, the quality of health care , as both practiced and received, should be qualitatively enhanced.