C426 Healthcare Values and Ethics Ch 1
Ethics Correct Answer: A set of principles of right and wrong conduct. A theory or system of moral
values regarding what is right and what is wrong, which guides behavior in relationships among people
in accordance with certain social roles.
Microethics Correct Answer: an individual's view of what is right and wrong based on personal life
experiences.
Macroethics Correct Answer: a more global view of right and wrong
Bioethics Correct Answer: The philosophical study of the ethical controversies brought about by
advances in biology, research (e.g., human cloning), and medicine.
Morality Correct Answer: a class of rules held by society to govern the conduct of its individual
members
Morals Correct Answer: ideas about what is right and what is wrong
Standards Correct Answer: used to guide human conduct by stating desirable traits to be exhibited and
undesirable ones to be avoided.
Principles Correct Answer: responsibilities that do not specify what the required conduct should be.
Rules Correct Answer: specific conduct; they do not allow for individual professional judgment
Moral judgments Correct Answer: judgments concerned with what an individual or group believes to be
the right or proper behavior in a given situation
normative ethics Correct Answer: The study of what is right and wrong, prescribes how people ought to
act
General normative ethics Correct Answer: the critical study of major moral precepts of such matters as
what things are right, what things are good, and what things are genuine
Applied ethics Correct Answer: the application of normative theories to practical moral problems. It
attempts to explain and justify specific moral problems such as abortion, euthanasia, and assisted
suicide.
Descriptive/comparative ethics Correct Answer: deals with what people believe to be right and wrong
Meta-ethics Correct Answer: seeks to understand ethical terms and theories and their application.
consequential theory of ethics Correct Answer: the theory that emphasizes that the morally right action
is whatever action leads to the maximum balance of good over evil.
Ethics Correct Answer: A set of principles of right and wrong conduct. A theory or system of moral
values regarding what is right and what is wrong, which guides behavior in relationships among people
in accordance with certain social roles.
Microethics Correct Answer: an individual's view of what is right and wrong based on personal life
experiences.
Macroethics Correct Answer: a more global view of right and wrong
Bioethics Correct Answer: The philosophical study of the ethical controversies brought about by
advances in biology, research (e.g., human cloning), and medicine.
Morality Correct Answer: a class of rules held by society to govern the conduct of its individual
members
Morals Correct Answer: ideas about what is right and what is wrong
Standards Correct Answer: used to guide human conduct by stating desirable traits to be exhibited and
undesirable ones to be avoided.
Principles Correct Answer: responsibilities that do not specify what the required conduct should be.
Rules Correct Answer: specific conduct; they do not allow for individual professional judgment
Moral judgments Correct Answer: judgments concerned with what an individual or group believes to be
the right or proper behavior in a given situation
normative ethics Correct Answer: The study of what is right and wrong, prescribes how people ought to
act
General normative ethics Correct Answer: the critical study of major moral precepts of such matters as
what things are right, what things are good, and what things are genuine
Applied ethics Correct Answer: the application of normative theories to practical moral problems. It
attempts to explain and justify specific moral problems such as abortion, euthanasia, and assisted
suicide.
Descriptive/comparative ethics Correct Answer: deals with what people believe to be right and wrong
Meta-ethics Correct Answer: seeks to understand ethical terms and theories and their application.
consequential theory of ethics Correct Answer: the theory that emphasizes that the morally right action
is whatever action leads to the maximum balance of good over evil.
