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.
2. Paternalists believe that physicians are justified in deceiving patients if doing so is in those patients’
best interests.
3. Valid consent requires that we deliberate before we decide.
4. Both Ross and Mill believe that medical research must be based on what is useful.
5. The principle of totality is based on the Natural Law theory of morality.
6. Contagious diseases spread vertically through a population; genetic diseases spread horizontally
through a population.
7. Paying someone in need of money to perform a service constitutes exploitation.
8. The right to life is absolute.
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False
9. Judith Jarvis Thomson argues that abortion should always be permissible under any and all
circumstances.
10. Mary Ann Warren argues that there is a difference between being a genetic human and a moral
human.
11. A rule utilitarian might favor saving the lives of all severely impaired infants even if the costs of doing
so outweigh the benefits in some cases.
12. A hedonistic utilitarian is only concerned with the satisfaction of preferences.
13. The “someone else problem” can be used to criticize the validity of advance directives.
14. A person’s autonomy can be violated when this person does which of the following?
15. Which ethical theory might favor a program of positive eugenics?
16. The “Interest in Existing” argument holds that
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c. Euthanasia is wrong because it kills an existing person.
d. We have a duty to reproduce as much as possible.
17. H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. argues that
18. The market approach to organ allocation puts a low value on which of the following?
19. According to the “life-cycle principle” a flu vaccine should be given in priority to those between early
adolescence and middle age on what basis?
20. Geyman argues that in its first five years the Affordable Care Act has done which of the following?
21. What is the primary focus of most social models of disability?
22. The legislation that Minkoff and Paltrow oppose would expand the definition of “child” to include
which of the following?
23. Sirkku K. Hellsten argues that health practices should be evaluated in terms of
24. Which principle can simply be stated as meaning “above all, do no harm”?
25. Which of the following are principles of justice that Rawls believes that all people in the original
position would agree upon?