Bioethics Practice Questions with complete Solutions Already Passed
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Bioethics Practice Questions with complete Solutions Already Passed
What fallacy best describes the flaw in reasoning of the following argument?
My last doctor was arrogant and greedy since she overcharged me for all office visits. Thus, all doctors are arrogant and greedy. - Answers Hasty gener...
Bioethics Practice Questions with complete Solutions Already Passed
What fallacy best describes the flaw in reasoning of the following argument?
My last doctor was arrogant and greedy since she overcharged me for all office visits. Thus, all doctors
are arrogant and greedy. - Answers Hasty generalization
According to your instructor, people can be persuaded by 'bad' arguments that contain some type of
fallacy. - Answers True
Logical argument and persuasion are essentially the same thing. - Answers False
That equals should be treated equally is a basic precept of the principle of autonomy - Answers False
Nonmaleficence is the bedrock precept of codes of conduct for health care professionals. - Answers True
What fallacy does the following argument commit?
We cannot legalize marijuana for medical use. If we do so, everyone in the country will start getting
high. - Answers Slippery slope
The principle of respect for autonomy places no restraints on what can be done to an autonomous
person. - Answers False
if people's moral judgments differ from culture to culture, moral norms are relative to culture. - Answers
False
All religious people accept the divine command theory - Answers False
Moral premises can be called into question by showing that they - Answers Conflict with credible
principles, theories, or judgments
Classic utilitarianism depends heavily on a strong sense of impartiality. - Answers true
Any moral theory that is inconsistent with the facts of the moral life is - Answers Problematic
Consequentialist moral theories insist that the rightness of actions depends solely on - Answers The
consequences or results
Natural law tradition resolves dilemmas through the principle of utility - Answers False
Kant's principle of respect for persons says that we should always treat persons - Answers Never merely
as a means to an end
Underlying natural law theory is the belief that - Answers All of nature, including humankind, is
teleological
, Kant says that through reason and reflection we can derive our duties from - Answers The categorical
imperative
Rule-utilitarianism is the idea that the rightness of actions depends solely on the relative good produced
by individual actions. - Answers False
which one of the following theories typically falls under the category of deontology? - Answers Natural
law theory
Some people criticize utilitarianism for being too demanding because this theory reaches the conclusion
that we ought to give up buying some luxury goods such as the next iPhone and, instead, to use that
money to enhance the well-being of homeless animals or people - Answers True
Which of the following theorists would most strongly support a minimal conception of the state? -
Answers Robert Nozick
According to your instructor, what is one of the advantages of Rawls' theory of justice? - Answers It
would offset some of the impacts of the natural lottery.
According to Nozick, the subject of justice in holdings consists of three major topics. Which of the
following is NOT one of those major topics? - Answers The appropriation of unheld things
The rationing of health care has never been tried in the United States. - Answers False
The utilitarian purpose behind using QALYs is ___________. - Answers To do the most good with the
resources available
The theory of justice insisting that the benefits and burdens of society should be distributed through the
fair workings of a free market and the exercise of liberty rights of noninterference is - Answers
Libertarian
Norman Daniels believes that a strong right to health care can be derived from _________________. -
Answers Fair equality of opportunity
Rationing on the level of the total health care system is known as - Answers Macroallocation
The theory of justice most likely to insist on a system of universal health care is - Answers Egalitarianism
Some argue that QALYs are unfair to - Answers Old people and the diabled
In general, Kantian ethics views paternalism as - Answers A violation of atonomy
A DNR is directive telling the medical staff to - Answers Forgo CPR on a patient
The issue of paternalism usually arises from conflicts between patients' autonomy and - Answers
Physicians' duty of beneficence
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