CHLH 260 Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers

CHLH 260 Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers Good ethical decisions must - answermaximize all positions, minimize negative side effects, and respect values of victims, societies, and institutions Robert Donnell (Disasters) - answerBelieves doctors must apply moral absolutes and must never administer fatal doses of medication Physicians should draw a bright line that will prohibit them from even taking action resulting in death of a person. Mary Faith Marshall (Disasters) - answerBelieves there is no moral absolute, but a gray area where there is no clear right or wrong solution Must be based on a variety of factors and between the less-bad options When military goes to war, who goes along with? - answerMedical Personnel What does international law state? - answerTo treat wounded from both sides, care for injured civilians, care for enemy prisoners, and report abuse of detainees What did the Geneva Conventions state? - answerTo protect medical personnel from direct attack as long as physicians are not direct combatants, no physical or mental torture or coercion to prisoners to get information If prisoners don't answer military personnel - answerthey may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed to unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment What did the Third Geneva Convention in 1949 state? - answerTo protect civilians against deportation, hostage taking, torture, and discrimination in treatment Medical personnel are not combatants, wounded/sick are protected, respected, treated humanely, and cared for Suicide bombers - answerCause devastating loss of life Issues with medical ethics and the military - answerCombatants lose right to life with right to kill Enemy has no right to medical care until they are no longer a threat