PHLB09H3 Chapter 0: END OF CHAPTER TERMS
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The use of moral norms and concepts to resolve practical moral issues. Bioethics is applied ethics that is focused on health care, medical science and medical technology. The main purpose of bioethics is to solve bioethics problems using resources ad methods of moral philosophy. There are 4 main principles that are influential such as beneficence, autonomy, utility and justice. Significance- in bioethics, moral principles are used to be balanced with other moral concerns. For example: a parent can argue and say to donate a infants organs to save other children but this involves taking the organs right away before deteriorate. Also there is a distinction between a prima facie principle and an absolute principle. An absolute principle- telling the patients the truth without no exceptions. Prima faci principle- telling with some exceptions for example if a patient can die from knowing the truth it is hidden. The rational capacity of a person to direct themselves and make their own choices.
