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Ethics
- Four ethical principles - Identified
by Beauchamp and Childress
- Autonomy
- Respecting a persons choice
Paternalism acts against
autonomy and limits a persons
freedom, while acting in there
best interests (beneficence)
- Respecting a persons choice
Paternalism acts against
autonomy and limits a persons
freedom, while acting in there
best interests (beneficence)
- Justice
- Being able to justify
your actions
- Being able to justify
your actions
- Beneficence
- 'Doing good', & acting in the
best interests of another
person
- 'Doing good', & acting in the
best interests of another
person
- Non-Malfeasance
- 'Doing no harm'. do not kill or
cause pain or suffering
- 'Doing no harm'. do not kill or
cause pain or suffering
- Autonomy
- Advanced directives
- Allows a patients Autonomy to be
respected
- Dresser & Pratt argues we should not deny patients the
opportunity to change there minds.
- Harris & Bennett argues that ignoring advanced
directives shows a lack of compassion towards
the whole person.
- Dresser & Pratt argues we should not deny patients the
opportunity to change there minds.
- Allows a patients Autonomy to be
respected
- Capacity and decision Making
- A persons capacity to make decisio is judged on there
understanding of medical condition, its treatment options, and
being able to retain information
- Mental Capacity Act 2005
states that every one is seen
as having 'capacity', unless
proved otherwise.
- A persons capacity to make decisio is judged on there
understanding of medical condition, its treatment options, and
being able to retain information
- What make 'a good death'?
- DelVecchio believes a good death
exists only when the patients
personhood is acknowledged and
valued.
- Kellehear believes deaths due to
dementia is shameful, yet palliative care
could help ensure death is 'appropriate'.
- DelVecchio believes a good death
exists only when the patients
personhood is acknowledged and
valued.
- What is Ethics?
- The study of morality is called 'ethics'.
Based on moral judgements about what
should or should not be done in any given
situation.
- The study of morality is called 'ethics'.
Based on moral judgements about what
should or should not be done in any given
situation.
- Consequentialism
- Ethical theory about doing something
so long as it has good consequences.
and the ends justify the means.
- Ethical theory about doing something
so long as it has good consequences.
and the ends justify the means.
- Deontology
- Examples of deontology are the
four ethical principles.
- Examples of deontology are the
four ethical principles.
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