HSC 355 Final Questions with Correct
Answers
Who is the founder of bioethics? - Answer-Van Rensselar Potter
What is the title of the first book on bioethics? - Answer-Bridge of the Future
What's the etymology of the word bioethics? - Answer-Bios (reflective life) + Ethos
(behavior)
What's the...
What are the reasons that lead human beings to treat each other in a careless/cruel way? -
Answer✔✔-Reductionism and lack of consideration of human complexity. Scientism in medicine
lead to human unethical experiments.
What is reductionism? - Answer✔✔-Reducing humans to machines.
An example of reductionism is the growing market of medicine to fix emotional problems like
depression.
What is objectivism? - Answer✔✔-It's a point of view that demands to describe reality as always
objective as if it were possible to look at things from the point of view of things themselves.
An example of objectivism: describing the reality of my happiness as something that must be
measurable and equal for all.
What is scientism? - Answer✔✔-Science is seen as the only correct answer to complex human
questions. Cosmetic application of scientific knowledge to difficult human issues are considered
as the only solutions (ex: pills if youre depressed). Result of reductionism.
An example of Cognitivism/Scientism is explaining complex emotions as rational judgment or
discarding them as a disturbance in the background that we need to put in silent or mute.
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