PHI 15 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Institutional Review Board, Moral Treatment, Belmont Report
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In our time and our place, bioethics emerged in the late 1950s and 1960s, a turbulent era in which authorities of all kinds parental, academic, political, medical, military were challenged. (p. 6) Physicians were deciding not only that continued tortuous life support was in a dying person"s best interest but that the physician"s order" justified continued infliction of that torture (p. 7) Disciplines involved in bioethics: medicine: doctors, nurses, science: biology, biomedical engineering, genetics, law, religion, economics, public health, philosophical ethics. Technologies that led to new bioethics questions: dialysis machine. Not enough machines for the amount of patients due to how expensive the machines were: 1st heart transplant. Performed by south african surgeon christiaan barnard in 1967. It has also been very much concerned with relations between colleagues within the profession (p. 4: bioethics, on the other hand, is a more overtly critical and reflective enterprise.
