CHLH 260- Final Exam questions with
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Good Ethical decisions must respect the values of whom? - correct answer ✔✔1. Victims
2. Societies
3. Institutions
Robert Donnell believes that doctors must apply moral absolutes and therefore they must never
administer what? - correct answer ✔✔fatal doses of medicine
This idea of Donnell's is that physician's should draw a
"________" that will prohibit them from even taking action that will result on the death of another
person. - correct answer ✔✔Bright Line
Note: Donnell believes the bright line should prohibit physicians from ever taking action they know will
result in death of another person
On the other side of this dilemma, Mary Faith Marshall believes there is no moral absolute, but a
_______where there is no clear right or wrong solution and decisions must often be made based on a
variety of factors - correct answer ✔✔Gray area
Which situation based category of ethical theories best explains Marshall's viewpoint on euthanasia in
the midst of a disaster? - correct answer ✔✔Relativism?
When the military goes to war, what does international law say the medical personnel must do? - correct
answer ✔✔1. Treat wounded from both sides
2. Care for injured civilians
3. Care for enemy prisoners
4. Report abuse of detainees
, The Geneva Conventions created a list of rules to protect prisoners of war, what were some of the things
it listed? - correct answer ✔✔1. No physical or mental torture
2. Not to use any form of coercion may be inflicted on prisoners to secure information
3. If prisoners don't answer they may not be threatened, Insulted, or exposed to unpleasant or
disadvantageous treatment
What did the Third Geneva Conference in 1949 protect civilians against? - correct answer ✔✔1.
Deportation
2. Hostage taking
3. Torture
4. Discrimination in treatment
Define Salvage Value. - correct answer ✔✔It is the likelihood that a captured and treated soldier will
return to war and fight against the captors. If they are unable to return then they may not be able to
claim scarce medical care
According to Michael Gross, war overwhelms physician's moral obligations to relieve suffering and
therefore violated what ethical principle? - correct answer ✔✔Beneficence
Because Bloche and Marks believe that physicians must remain physicians no matter the circumstances,
they believe physicians must always have undivided loyalty to whom? - correct answer ✔✔The patient
As the population of the United States matures, does the cost of health care increase or decrease? -
correct answer ✔✔It increases as well.
Callahan, who says that resources are scarce and it is morally acceptable to limit care for the elderly,
believes that efforts to starve off death will do what? - correct answer ✔✔Avoiding death through
medicine will rob old age of meaning and significance.
Callahan also believes that the main goal of medicine should be to do what? - correct answer ✔✔He
believes that medicine should not have the goal to continually extend life, but enable the achievement
of a natural life span.
• Concerns with care for the aged
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Good Ethical decisions must respect the values of whom? - correct answer ✔✔1. Victims
2. Societies
3. Institutions
Robert Donnell believes that doctors must apply moral absolutes and therefore they must never
administer what? - correct answer ✔✔fatal doses of medicine
This idea of Donnell's is that physician's should draw a
"________" that will prohibit them from even taking action that will result on the death of another
person. - correct answer ✔✔Bright Line
Note: Donnell believes the bright line should prohibit physicians from ever taking action they know will
result in death of another person
On the other side of this dilemma, Mary Faith Marshall believes there is no moral absolute, but a
_______where there is no clear right or wrong solution and decisions must often be made based on a
variety of factors - correct answer ✔✔Gray area
Which situation based category of ethical theories best explains Marshall's viewpoint on euthanasia in
the midst of a disaster? - correct answer ✔✔Relativism?
When the military goes to war, what does international law say the medical personnel must do? - correct
answer ✔✔1. Treat wounded from both sides
2. Care for injured civilians
3. Care for enemy prisoners
4. Report abuse of detainees
, The Geneva Conventions created a list of rules to protect prisoners of war, what were some of the things
it listed? - correct answer ✔✔1. No physical or mental torture
2. Not to use any form of coercion may be inflicted on prisoners to secure information
3. If prisoners don't answer they may not be threatened, Insulted, or exposed to unpleasant or
disadvantageous treatment
What did the Third Geneva Conference in 1949 protect civilians against? - correct answer ✔✔1.
Deportation
2. Hostage taking
3. Torture
4. Discrimination in treatment
Define Salvage Value. - correct answer ✔✔It is the likelihood that a captured and treated soldier will
return to war and fight against the captors. If they are unable to return then they may not be able to
claim scarce medical care
According to Michael Gross, war overwhelms physician's moral obligations to relieve suffering and
therefore violated what ethical principle? - correct answer ✔✔Beneficence
Because Bloche and Marks believe that physicians must remain physicians no matter the circumstances,
they believe physicians must always have undivided loyalty to whom? - correct answer ✔✔The patient
As the population of the United States matures, does the cost of health care increase or decrease? -
correct answer ✔✔It increases as well.
Callahan, who says that resources are scarce and it is morally acceptable to limit care for the elderly,
believes that efforts to starve off death will do what? - correct answer ✔✔Avoiding death through
medicine will rob old age of meaning and significance.
Callahan also believes that the main goal of medicine should be to do what? - correct answer ✔✔He
believes that medicine should not have the goal to continually extend life, but enable the achievement
of a natural life span.
• Concerns with care for the aged
