How Bioethical Standpoints Influence Biomedical Decisions

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How Bioethical Standpoints Influence Biomedical
Decisions
EXAMPLES
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Aristotles Virtue Ethics
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Aquinas Christian Ethics
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Aquinas General Characterization of Natural
Morality
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Aquinas General Characterization of Natural
Morality
Also the view of John Locke and the US Founding
Fathers
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Existential Nihilism
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Religious Terrorism
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Neuroscience
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Pantheistic Hinduism
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Standard Monotheism
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Christian Science
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TERRI SCHIAVO CASE CATHOLIC POSITION
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TERRI SCHIAVO CASE (A POSSIBLE)
UTILITARIAN POSITION
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TERRI SCHIAVO CASE (ANOTHER POSSIBLE)
UTILITARIAN POSITION
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TERRI SCHIAVO CASE (A POSSIBLE) DEONTOLOGICAL
POSITION
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TERRI SCHIAVO CASE (ANOTHER POSSIBLE)
DEONTOLOGICAL POSITION
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TERRI SCHIAVO CASE (A POSSIBLE)
VIRTUE ETHICS POSITION
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TERRI SCHIAVO CASE CHRISTIAN VIRTUE ETHICS
POSITION
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Thank You
Robert Arp, Ph.D. Ontology Research Group
(ORG) www.org.buffalo.edu National Center for
Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) www.bioontology.org T
his work was funded by the National Institutes of
Health through the NIH Roadmap for Biomedical
Research, Grant 1 U 54 HG004028. Information on
the National Centers for Biomedical Computing can
be found at http//nihroadmap.nih.gov/bioinformat
ics.