Ethics of Health Care

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Ethics of Health Care

• 1/14/04

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Schedule

• Codes of Conduct
• Looking at Codes
• Thinking about Codes
• Reflection 1 Assignment

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Questions?
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Codes of Conduct

• Why would we use them?
• What are they good for?

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Hippocratic Oath

• Correction
• The first line should read I swear by Apollo
  Physician and Asclepius and Hygieia and Panaceia

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Hippocratic Oath

• Invocation Section
• Who are these names?
• Obligations to teachers secrecy
• Pharmacist note 2 on 25.

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Hippocratic Oath

• Code of Conduct
• Note categorical statements
• according to my ability and judgment?
• keep them from harm and injustice?
• No deadly drugs, or abortions
• I will not use the knife
• No sexual relations with households visited

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Hippocratic Oath

• Councilor Statement
• How do you think of your physician?

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Hippocratic Oath

• Anything missing?
• What do you think about it?

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AMA Principles (1980 revision)

• These are principles, not laws.
• How does it differ from HO? How is it similar?

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AMA Principles (2001 revision)

• Changes in second principle
• Added 8th and 9th principles

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ANA Code for Nurses (1976)

• Differences? Similarities?
• Interesting inclusions?

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ANA Code (76)

• How far to take any person in 3?

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ICN International Code of Nursing Ethics

• Differences? Similarities?
• Interesting inclusions?

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ICN Code

• 1 What happens when these come into conflict?
• 8 What if the authorities are the ones in the
  wrong?
• 10 No advertising
• 12 Is it fair to prescribe person and
  professional life?
• 13 What if the community standards are wrong?

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APA Ethical Principles (1981)

• Differences? Similarities?
• Interesting inclusions?

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APA (81)

• 3 sensitive to prevailing community
  standards ?

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APA Ethical Principles (2002)

• Changed format. 5 General Principles.
• No longer mention animals.

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First of all, do no harm.

• What does this mean?
• Does intent matter?

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Codes of Conduct

• Why would we use them?
• What are they good for?

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Codes of Conduct

• How are they different than the theories we have
  been looking at?

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Administrivia

• 1st Paper Assignment
• Writing Guidelines

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Writing Reflection Papers

• You need to preview your argument, and provide a
  thesis.
• You need to utilize at least one of the theories
  that we have been working with.
• Consider and respond to an objection to your view.

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For Next Time

• Veatch 58 61
• Lund The Doctor the Patient and the Truth
• Gawande Whose Body Is It Anyway?
• Be working on your current events journal.