Question 1

The Nuremberg Code states that

Accepted Answer

A)  patients deserve a right to die. 
B)  patients deserve a right to any treatment they request. 
C)  medical researchers must do all they can to protect their subjects from harm. 
D)  dying patients should be offered the right to donate their organs. 
E)  medical researchers must pay their research subjects. 
A)  patients deserve a right to die. 
B)  patients deserve a right to any treatment they request. 
C)  medical researchers must do all they can to protect their subjects from harm. 
D)  dying patients should be offered the right to donate their organs. 
E)  medical researchers must pay their research subjects.

Question 2

The Karen Quinlan case demonstrated the problems caused when doctors

Accepted Answer

A)  extend life without regard to the quality of that life. 
B)  perform organ transplants. 
C)  perform kidney dialysis. 
D)  genetically alter fetuses. 
E)  transfer patients from hospitals to nursing homes. 
A)  extend life without regard to the quality of that life. 
B)  perform organ transplants. 
C)  perform kidney dialysis. 
D)  genetically alter fetuses. 
E)  transfer patients from hospitals to nursing homes.

Question 3

Which state's health care system extended coverage to poor residents by deciding in advance that it would not fund certain health care procedures?

Accepted Answer

A)  California 
B)  Hawaii 
C)  Oregon 
D)  Arizona 
E)  Alaska 
A)  California 
B)  Hawaii 
C)  Oregon 
D)  Arizona 
E)  Alaska

Question 4

In the study conducted at the Willowbrook State School, doctors

Accepted Answer

A)  purposely infected children with hepatitis. 
B)  treated children who had hepatitis. 
C)  intervened to improve the horrendous conditions in which children were living. 
D)  cut short their experiment once they realized hepatitis could be cured with new drugs. 
E)  found a cure for hepatitis through unethical methods. 
A)  purposely infected children with hepatitis. 
B)  treated children who had hepatitis. 
C)  intervened to improve the horrendous conditions in which children were living. 
D)  cut short their experiment once they realized hepatitis could be cured with new drugs. 
E)  found a cure for hepatitis through unethical methods.

Question 5

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study lasted for about

Accepted Answer

A)  three years. 
B)  five years. 
C)  ten years. 
D)  forty years. 
E)  seventy years. 
A)  three years. 
B)  five years. 
C)  ten years. 
D)  forty years. 
E)  seventy years.

Question 6

In the Baby Doe case,

Accepted Answer

A)  doctors performed surgery unlikely to improve the baby's quality of life. 
B)  parents forced the doctors to perform surgery that the doctors considered unwarranted. 
C)  the baby died after its parents refused to authorize potentially life-saving surgery. 
D)  doctors demanded federal funding for performing surgery on a retarded baby. 
E)  lawyers forced parents to comply with their doctors' decisions regarding their baby's care. 
A)  doctors performed surgery unlikely to improve the baby's quality of life. 
B)  parents forced the doctors to perform surgery that the doctors considered unwarranted. 
C)  the baby died after its parents refused to authorize potentially life-saving surgery. 
D)  doctors demanded federal funding for performing surgery on a retarded baby. 
E)  lawyers forced parents to comply with their doctors' decisions regarding their baby's care.

Question 7

Under the Nazi government,

Accepted Answer

A)  doctors sterilized persons considered genetically inferior. 
B)  the marriage of persons with certain diseases was prohibited. 
C)  doctors supervised the killings of state mental hospital patients. 
D)  doctors decided which concentration camp inmates would be killed immediately. 
E)  all of the above 
A)  doctors sterilized persons considered genetically inferior. 
B)  the marriage of persons with certain diseases was prohibited. 
C)  doctors supervised the killings of state mental hospital patients. 
D)  doctors decided which concentration camp inmates would be killed immediately. 
E)  all of the above

The Nuremberg Code states that

The Karen Quinlan case demonstrated the problems caused when doctors

Which state's health care system extended coverage to poor residents by deciding in advance that it would not fund certain health care procedures?

In the study conducted at the Willowbrook State School, doctors

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study lasted for about

In the Baby Doe case,

Under the Nazi government,

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The Social Meanings of Illness

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Exam 13: Issues in Bioethics

The Nuremberg Code states that

The Karen Quinlan case demonstrated the problems caused when doctors

Which state's health care system extended coverage to poor residents by deciding in advance that it would not fund certain health care procedures?

In the study conducted at the Willowbrook State School, doctors

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study lasted for about

In the Baby Doe case,

Under the Nazi government,

The Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care

The Social Sources of Modern Illness

The Social Distribution of Illness in the United States

Illness and Death in Less Developed Nations

The Social Meanings of Illness

The Experience of Disability, Chronic Pain, and Chronic Illness

The Sociology of Mental Illness

Health Care in the United States

Health Care Around the Globe

Health Care Settings and Technologies

The Profession of Medicine

Other Mainstream and Alternative Health Care Providers

Filters