PRINCIPLES OF MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE 1

LESSON 3: ETHICS
 Situational
GENERAL GUIDLINES analysis

LEGEND FOR HEADERS ETHICAL RELATIVISM

 Also known as moral relativism
MAIN TOPIC  Morality is relative to the norms of a particular
SUBTOPIC culture
SUB-SUBTOPIC  Some cultures accept certain acts that are
unacceptable to other cultures
HUMAN EXISTENCE AND ETHICS
ETHICS
 Moral code - guide or this is were we able to ETHICAL PRAGMATISM
do what is the things that we have to do in  Term coined by Charles Sanders Peirce
order for us to make sure na wala tayong
maooffend or wala tayong magagawang mali
 Developed by William James
in terms of the eyes of other people  Considered as America's most distinctive
 Guide on how individual should behave contribution to field of philosophy
 Branch of knowledge
 More on a theory on knowledge, truth and
meaning rather than morality
 Deals with moral principles
 Ethics is also about individual search for ETHICAL UTILITARIANISM
meaning while dealing human problem which  Founded by Jeremy Bentham and John
may be: Stuart Mill
o Logical (problems of reasoning)
o Epistemological (problems of the  Rightness or wrongness of actions is
determined by their consequences
truth)
o Cosmological (problems of  "Actions are good insofar as they tend to
universe) promote happiness, bad as they tend to
o Ethical (problems of morality promote unhappiness"
o Aesthetical (problems of art and
beauty) MORAL ISSUES
o Scientific (problems of science)  Abortion
o Direct, induced, or natural killing of
HUMAN EXISTENCE the unborn child
 Human beings are logical beings, however o Illegal in the Philippines
human existence is Inexplicable o Stipulated in Article 2 section 12 of
 Human beings means we are always thinking, the Philippine Constitution
we are always asking for answers in every  Euthanasia
questions o Also known as Mercy Killing
 Human existence is starts when you are o Practice ending a life intentionally,
born, going to start to suffer, then continue usually in situations when the
to suffer, and then death individual is terminally ill to relieve
 Human life is tragic him/her of pain and suffering
 Perpetual process of making sense of the  Voluntary - with consent
absurdity of one's existence  Non-voluntary -
 Making sense of human existence - caused permission is not available
the development of the study of ethics (in deep comatose)
 Genetic Engineering
ETHICS MORALITY o Genetic manipulation of the genetic
Theoretical Based on principles make-up of organisms
prescriptions/critiques practiced by a particular  Genetic screening
community (usually done) - screen,
 Nature of the  Fundamental choose and select
good convictions of genes
 Nature of the human agent  Genetic interventions
human person  Character of (you will be able actually to
modified) - control, therapy,
 Criteria of the moral
and surgery
judgement agent
 Use of norms

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  Stem cell therapy (morally
wrong) - treat and prevent
disease
 In Vitro Fertilization
 IVF
 Laboratory
fertilization
 Professional Ethics
o Covers the morally accepted
behaviors of individuals in the
workplace
o Code of ethics of a particular
profession
o Professionalism

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