Healthcare Ethics Test 1: Reading Assignment 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 21. We care especially about people's characteristic motives, the motivational structures deeply embedded in their character. (T/F) | True |
| 22. The merit of an action resides entirely in motive or character. (T/F) | False |
| 23. The American Medical Association has over the years emphasized virtues in their codes of ethics. (T/F) | False |
| 24. Virtues such as loyalty, courage, kindness, and benevolence at times lead persons to act inappropriately and unacceptably. (T/F) | True |
| 25. Conscience is the final authority in moral justification. (T/F) | False |
| 26. One moral problem with acting merely from virtue/character: | May not bring about desired results |
| 27. The friend who acts only from obligation lacks the ________________ of friendliness. | virtue |
| 28. The ethics of care emphasizes traits valued in intimate personal relationships such as sympathy, compassion, fidelity, and love. (T/F) | True |
| 29. Moral experiences suggest that we often rely on our emotions, our capacity for sympathy, our sense of friendship, and our sensitivity to determine appropriate moral responses. (T/F) | True |
| 30. Caring itself has a cognitive dimension. (T/F) | True |
| 31. ________________________ explains that "No passion of another discovers itself immediately to the mind. We are only sensible of its causes or effects. From these we infer the passion: And consequently these give rise to our sympathy." | David Hume |
| 32. ___________________________ involves the ability to make fitting judgments and reach decisions without being unduly influenced by extraneous considerations, fears, personal attachments, and the like. | Discernment |
| 33. Among the contributing causes of the erosion of a climate of trust in the health care system is what? Name one factor (BC6 give three): | 1.) Loss of intimate contact between physicians and patients |
| 34. _____________________ is a form of self-reflection on, and judgment about, whether one's acts are obligatory or prohibited, right or wrong, good or bad. | Conscience |
| 35. _________________ (philosopher) maintained that we acquire virtues much as we do skills such as carpentry, playing a musical instrument, and cooking. | Aristotle |
| 36. The virtue of ____________________ is expressed in acts of beneficence that attempt to alleviate the misfortune or suffering of another person. | Compassion |
| 37. A person can lack moral ________________ through hypocrisy, insincerity, bad faith, and self-deception. | Integrity |
| 38. The person of ____________________ is disposed to understand and perceive what circumstances demand. | Discernment |
| 39. _____________________ is a confident belief in and reliance on the moral character and competence of another person. | Trustworthiness |
| 40. ____________________ means fidelity in adherence to moral norms. | Integrity |
| 41. One who acts conscientiously is ___________________ to do what is right because it is right, has tried to __________________ what is right, ______________ to do what is right, and exerts an appropriate level of ___________ to do so. | motivated; determined; intends; effort |
| 42. Wherever a person is on the continuum of moral development, there will be a goal of excellence that exceeds what he or she has already achieved. (T/F) | True |
| 43. If a pharmacist refuses to fill a legal prescription for reasons of personal conscience, then s/he still has an ethical duty to disclose options for obtaining these services elsewhere. (T/F) | True |
| 44. Not all supererogatory acts are exceptionally arduous, costly, or risky. (T/F) | True |
| 45. In the absence of public and institutional constraints, partiality toward others is the expected form of interaction and is morally permissible. (T/F) | True |
| 46. _________________________ acts are ones going beyond what is morally required. | Superogatory |
| 47. Those who do not pursue moral ideals can be rightly criticized. (T/F) | False |
| 48. BC6 argue we should aspire to moral excellence rather than settling for meeting a bare minimum of moral obligations. (T/F) | True |
| 49. ______________________ wrote Not All of Us Are Saints. | David Hilfiker |
| 50. Living organ donation raises complex ethical issues because the transplant team subjects a healthy person to a risky medical procedure with no _______________________. | medical benefit |
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