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Flashcards by Amelia Claire, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Amelia Claire
almost 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Morals | Morals are taken to be personal and are based on culture and upbringing. For example, your moral stance on the importance of keeping secrets. |
| Ethics | Ethics are taken to be public and based on logical decision making. For example, the pharmacy profession’s stance on confidentiality. |
| Values | Values are both personal and social, they may conflict or change over time. Values/morals based decisions and ethics based decisions may or may not be the same. |
| personal ethics / good life | Your personal ethics and morals will reflect back on your profession. Your concept of the Good Life must include a component of the professional life. E.g.; personal trust and systems trust, view of personhood (e.g. embryo research) |
| privacy | Practitioners have ethical and legal obligations to protect the privacy of patients. Patients have a right to expect that practitioners and their staff will hold information about them in confidence, unless release of information is required by law or public interest considerations. |
| code of ethics | **not allowing moral or religious views to deny patients or clients access to healthcare** practitioners ARE free to decline to provide or participate in particular healthcare personally - BUT objection must not impede access to services. |
| Ethical Theory: Consequentialism | Judges "rightness" or" wrongness" of an act by considering consequences. Theoretically, a "good" act has more good results than bad; an ethical person tries to maximise the good and minimise the bad results of their actions. -consider extrinsic and intrinsic results |
| Ethical Theory: Beneficence | The moral and ethical principle that states that actions or practices are "right" in so far as the they produce good consequences. |
| Ethical Theory: Non-maleficence | The moral or ethical principle that actions or practices are "right" in so far as the avoid producing bad consequences • Do positive good • Make sure good outweighs harm • Prevent harm • Do not directly harm |
| Order of Ethical Priorities | • Truth and integrity • Beneficence and non-maleficence • Justice and fairness • Autonomy and consent • Confidentiality |
| Ethical Thinking | Requires of us that we think carefully about what we VALUE and WHY we value it. We also need to be aware of the difference between pharmacy ethics, research and business ethics, and, when they may conflict. |
| The Good Life | The good life is a term for the life that one would like to live, or for happiness, associated Aristotle and his teaching on ethics. People who hope for a better world feel the need for a shared vision of the "good life," a vision that is flexible enough for innumerable individual circumstances but comprehensive enough to unite people in optimistic, deliberate, progressive social change. |
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