Deck 11: The Challenge of Global Bioethics-PART A

Question 1

The term for a bioethical responsibility that stretches beyond the ties of kinship or shared citizenship is

A) cosmopolitan.
B) diverse.
C) totalitarian.
D) contractarian.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The drowning child scenario questions

A) whether we can ever really make a difference.
B) whether making a difference can be justifiably limited to one's own nation.
C) whether we have any obligation to make a difference in the lives of the poor.
D) whether we have an obligation outside our own nation.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following are First World Problems?

A) Cancer
B) Hypertension
C) Heart disease
D) All of these choices

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Who developed the example of the drowning baby in the wading pool?

A) Singer
B) Mill
C) Rawls
D) Ross

Question 5

Many newer approaches to bioethical issues are

A) principalistic.
B) objectivist.
C) pluralistic.
D) relativist.

Question 6

Many disagreements over global health issues involve questions of

A) what the scientific causes of climate change are.
B) fairness and disparity.
C) malaria and dysentery.
D) who is responsible for carbon emissions.

Question 7

In some African cultures competent patients can delegate their informed consent to which of the following?

A) Community leaders
B) Parents
C) Siblings
D) All of these choices

Question 8

Whose ethical system was grounded in the idea of autonomous control over one's body?

A) Singer's
B) Kant's
C) Grodin's
D) Mill's.

Question 9

What medical specialties are paid the least?

A) Dermatologists and infectious disease specialists.
B) Dermatologists and family medicine specialists.
C) Infectious disease and family medicine specialists.
D) Cardiologists and family medicine specialists.

Question 10

Defenders of globalized clinical trials argue which of the following?

A) They made some of their subjects better off.
B) They made none of their subjects worse off.
C) They will lead to medical advances that will benefit the broader population.
D) All of these choices

Question 11

What response is given to the claim that patients "vote with their dollars"?

A) Biomedical markets are a poor guide to social value.
B) Bioethics is not a political issue.
C) Voting and purchasing are from separate spheres of justice.
D) This claim only makes sense in a national context.

Question 12

Climate change is having a significant effect on human health as a result of which of the following factors?

A) heat
B) drought
C) extreme weather patterns
D) all of these choices

Question 13

If something is "anthropogenic" it is generated by

A) bacteria.
B) viruses.
C) climate.
D) humans.

Question 14

What position holds that there is a set of universal values that have application everywhere?

A) Relativism
B) Principalism
C) Objectivism
D) Multiculturalism

Question 15

The term used to describe a culture that is shaped by different subcultural and foreign influences is

A) diverse
B) cosmopolitan
C) relativistc
D) multicultural