Ethics may also mean ___

of human life in bioethics/ethics

Ø Set of laws or orders that may penalize wrong doing.

Ø They may guide an individual to act in conformity with

a law, ordinance, directive or policy

Ø Can be considered social policies.

Ø When rules of conduct are evaluated against a

standard rule, it is otherwise known as a principle of

the moral system.

Ø The product of learned codes of conduct and cognitive

evaluation of each situation.

Ø Practical application of what the conscious mind

dictates whether or not the action is right or wrong

Ø Product of cognitive, practical, and critical thinking

Ø Justified and practical without referring to

underlying laws or ordinance

Ø Came from the Latin word valere which means

“having worth or being worthy.

Ø It is conceived as an abstract object of interest or

worth.

Ø Manifest when an action has been done and

executed in congruency with public welfare.

Western medicine adopts the so called “Hippocratic oath”-

to practice the profession and to prescribe medicine to the

best of the physicians ability for the good of the patients

and to try avoid doing harm to the latter

Western medicine adopts the so called ____ -

to practice the profession and to prescribe medicine to the

best of the physicians ability for the good of the patients

and to try avoid doing harm to the latter

Ø Moral behavior is reshaped by moral reasoning

through the formulation of theories.

Ø Theories are based on assumption that the moral

behavior prescribed by ethics can be seen as an

adaptation of evolution

Ø Commonly practiced by health care workers such

as nurses, psychologists, and other allied health

workers.

Ø Pertains to Marxist principles- claim that all history

is the history of class struggle

Ø Evident among employers and corporate workers,

this type of ethics is anchored on sensitivity to

employees status and circumstances.

Ø Deals with how human utilize the Earth’s limited

resources.

Ø Used interchangeably with medical ethics

Ø Involves and medical research.

Ø Involves the basic concerns of human beings and their

close relationship with other organisms

Etymological root from Greek words ___ and ___

The branch of philosophy that deals with the morality of

human conduct is called ___

In 1927, German theologian ____ used the

term bioethics in his published work