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Intervention and Reflection Tenth Edition Ronald Munson and Ian Lague FINAL EXAM Answers in bold are the correct answers. 1. Laws that require a person to be licensed in order to be a professional therapist are encroachments on autonomy. True […]

Chapter 1: Physicians, Patients, and Others: Roles and Responsibilities Multiple Choice Questions 1) The debate over whether parents should be required to vaccinate their children is a debate over a) science. b) how society should approach parents who believe that […]

Chapter 10: Medicine in a Pluralistic Society Multiple Choice Questions 1) What value was invoked as an evolving ideal by both Martin Luther King, Jr., and Abraham Lincoln? a) Paternalism b) Equality c) Autonomy d) Freedom 2) A society that […]

Chapter 11: The Challenge of Global Bioethics Multiple Choice Questions 1) Climate change is having a significant effect on human health as a result of which of the following factors? a) heat b) drought c) extreme weather patterns d) all […]

Chapter 12: Ethical Theories, Moral Principles, and Medical Decisions Multiple Choice Questions 1) Who endorses utilitarianism? a) Ross b) Rawls c) Kant d) Mill 2) Which principle is also called the “greatest happiness principle”? a) The principle of utility b) […]

Chapter 2: Research Ethics and Informed Consent Multiple Choice Questions 1) Genuine deliberation requires a) only information. b) only understanding. c) both information and understanding. d) information, understanding, and autonomy. 2) Since her parents could not afford either a transplant […]

Chapter 3: Genetic Control Multiple Choice Questions 1) Which of the following is or are true of embryonic stem cells? a) They have the potential to become any kind of cell. b) They eventually become adult stem cells. c) They […]

Chapter 4: Reproductive Control Multiple Choice Questions 1) Which of the following is a characteristic of the “new breed” of single mothers? a) They have deliberately (rather than accidentally) become pregnant. b) They are in their late-twenties to mid-thirties. c) […]

Chapter 5: Abortion Multiple Choice Questions 1) When did the U.S. Supreme Court issue its Roe v. Wade decision decriminalizing abortion? a) 1973 b) 1962 c) 1984 d) 1959 2) The Roe v. Wade decision had which of the following […]

Chapter 6: The Dilemma of Impaired Infants Multiple Choice Questions 1) Why do some neonatologists consider making extraordinary efforts to resuscitate low birth weight infants to be an unacceptable option? a) The infants never survive. b) Such efforts are very […]

Chapter 7: Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Death Suicide Multiple Choice Questions 1) Which of the following characterizes a person in a persistent vegetative state? a) the cerebral hemispheres are damaged or dysfunctional b) she/he is able to breathe and excrete on […]

Chapter 8: Organ Transplants and Scarce Medical Resources Multiple Choice Questions 1) What reason or reasons lead to Ken Duke’s heart transplant sparking a controversy? a) Ken Duke was a prisoner at the time of the transplant. b) The state […]

Chapter 9: Distributing Health Care Multiple Choice Questions 1) What is the “free rider problem” in healthcare? a) The poor do not pay for their healthcare, but instead rely on the requirement that hospitals stabilize everyone who comes to an […]

Thimerosal,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Brian Deer, “How the Case against the MMR Vaccine Was Fixed,” BMJ 342 (2011): c5347; “Vaccine Safety: Examine the Evidence,” American Academy of Pediatrics, updated April 2013; and Margaret A. Maglione et al., […]

Maanvi Singh, “Younger Women Hesitate to Say They’re Having a Heart Attack,” NPR, February 24, 2015; S. Goering, “Women and Underserved Populations: Access to Clinical Trials,” in It Just Ain’t Fair, ed. A. Dula and S. Goering (Westport, CT: Praeger, […]

in ’96 Clinical Trial In Nigeria,” Sunday, May 7, 2006; and “Pfizer to Pay $75 Million to Settle Nigerian Trovan Drug-Testing Suit,” July 31, 2009; “Trovan’s Troubled History: Early Development,” December 17, 2000. Also see: by Nicole Perlroth, “Pfizer Finalizing […]

which our account is indebted. For the presentation of the Catholic natural law view we are indebted to Charles J. McFadden, Medical Ethics, 6th ed. (Philadelphia: F. A. Davis, 1967). The doctrine of double effect is discussed on pp. 121–155; […]

Therapy Case,” The Washington Post, February 10, 2005, A03; Deborah Nelson and Rick Weiss, “Gene Test Deaths Not Reported Promptly: NIH Was Unaware of ‘Adverse Events,’ ” The Washington Post, January 31, 2000, A01; Rick Weiss and Deborah Nelson, “Victim’s […]

Andrew Pollack, “Judge Invalidates Human Gene Patent,” March 29, 2010; John Dwyer, “Who Owns Genes? Nature, a Judge Says,” March 30, 2010; and Andrew Pollack, “After Patent on Genes Invalidated, Taking Stock,” March 31, 2010). On the patenting of the […]

For further information related to Social Context: Egg and Sperm Donors—Risks and Rewards, see Amy Harmon, “First Comes the Baby Carriage,” The New York Times, October 13, 2005; “Hello, I’m Your Sister,” The New York Times, November 20, 2005; and […]

Reported Abortions, by Known Weeks of Gestation and Reporting Area of Occurrence,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, November 28, 2014; and Karen Pazol, Andreea A. Creanga, Kim D. Burley, and Denise J. Jamieson, “Abortion Surveillance—United States, 2011: Table 21, […]

Determined by a Baby’s Size,” September 30, 1991; Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “As Premature Babies Grow, So Do Their Problems,” May 8, 2009; and Tamar Lewin, “Learning Problems of Premature Infants Are Broader Than Once Thought, Study Finds,” July 5, 2000. […]

New Assisted Suicide Law,” The New York Times, March 5, 2010 and from Robert Steinbrook, “Physician– Assisted Death—From Oregon to Washington State,” New England Journal of Medicine 359, no. 24 (December 11, 2008): 2513–5. On the legal issues see the […]

Case Presentation: The Prisoner Who Needed a Heart is based on facts drawn from James Steingold, “Inmate’s Transplant Prompts Questions of Costs and Ethics,” The New York Times, January 31, 2002; Tricia McDermott, Sixty Minutes, “Change of Heart,” Sixty Minutes, […]

Hancock, “Early Results: Average 2015 Exchange Premiums Decline Slightly,” The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, September 5, 2014; Rick Ungar, “Key Study on Obamacare 2015 Premium Rates Is Out and You Won’t Believe What’s Going to Happen,” Forbes, October 31, […]