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Zachary White

about 22 hours ago

Eugene Passamani believes that the ethical difficulties surrounding randomized clinical trials can be overcome if which of the following conditions is met?

A) Participants give informed consent.
B) A state of clinical equipoise exists.
C) The trial is designed as a test of therapeutic alternatives.
D) All of these choices

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Siyabonga Gumbi

about 22 hours ago

The autonomy of prisoners could be compromised by which of the following?

A) The offer of monetary inducements to participate in research
B) The offer of non-monetary inducements to participate in research
C) Their incarceration
D) All of these choices

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Phanith Dreamer

about 23 hours ago

One problem with many medical trials going unpublished is that this situation could result in

A) false positive results.
B) false negative results.
C) selection bias.
D) the increased use of placebos.

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Casey Mooney

about 24 hours ago

Since her parents could not afford either a transplant or the Norwood procedure (alternative correctional surgery) the case of Baby Fae raised issues about

A) commercial surrogacy.
B) informed consent.
C) commercial medicine.
D) euthanasia.

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Tayvin Roberson

1 day ago

Which of the following is or are true of a placebo?

A) Placebos are used in randomized clinical trials.
B) Placebos contain the currently most effective treatment for a condition.
C) Participants who receive a placebo during a trial know that they are receiving a placebo.
D) all of these choices

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Marslino Magdy

1 day ago

The basic requirement that must be met for an experiment to be morally legitimate is that

A) the experiment must be beneficial to the subject.
B) the experiment must be beneficial to mankind.
C) the subject must have given informed consent to be involved.
D) the experiment must be legally permissible.

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Courtney Cecil

1 day ago

Under what conditions did John Stuart Mill think that freedom of choice could be restricted?

A) When doing so would cause harm to the person who was acting.
B) When doing so would prevent harm to someone other than the person acting.
C) Under no circumstances.
D) When doing so would enhance social well-being.

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Eliza Mactal

1 day ago

Psychiatrists face special ethical problems concerning

A) the duty to rescue.
B) the duty to do no harm.
C) the duty to warn.
D) the duty to lie.

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Taruna Kamil Anwar

1 day ago

Since on W.D. Ross's theory everyone has a moral right to be treated as an autonomous agent, which of the following is true?

A) Securing a person's free and informed consent to her medical treatment is required.
B) Everyone is entitled to know the truth and to be educated in helpful ways.
C) Everyone is entitled to medical confidentiality.
D) All of these choices

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Samad Nadeem

1 day ago

Recognizing patients as autonomous agents and securing their free and autonomous consent to their treatment is required by

A) paternalistic concern for patient well-being.
B) respect for their dignity.
C) the duty of beneficence.
D) The duty to do no harm.

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Andrés Álvarez Trejo

1 day ago

The use of placebos would be criticized by someone who believed that

A) the doctor-patient relationship is based on paternalism.
B) informed consent is of moral importance.
C) doctors should only use remedies that have been shown to work.
D) all of these choices.

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Jasmine Moffett

1 day ago

According to a person who endorses a paternalistic approach to medicine, a physician deceiving her patient

A) is justified only when it is in the best interest of the patient.
B) is never justified.
C) is justified when it is done for the greater good of all.
D) is justified only if the patient's family requires the physician to do so.

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leslie lloza

1 day ago

Definitions of healthy and unhealthy behavior

A) are fixed over time.
B) are determined by medical professionals alone.
C) shift over time.
D) are determined by vote.

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James Watts

1 day ago

Which of the following is or are required for consent to be considered morally and legally meaningful?

A) the individual must be competent to understand her condition and capable of exercising judgment about her care
B) relevant and understandable information about condition and care must be provided
C) the individual must be free to decide without coercion
D) all of these choices

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Hannah Elizabeth

1 day ago

Which of the following is or are an example of "state paternalism"?

A) licensing requirements
B) restrictions on therapies and treatments paid for by governmentally sponsored health insurances such as Medicare or Medicaid
C) restrictions on the use of government research funds
D) all of these choices

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Darion Moore

1 day ago

Identity-based theorists reject the use of universal moral concepts.

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Ofelia Francisco-Diego

1 day ago

Every public health decision involves value judgments about

A) health.
B) sickness.
C) freedom of choice.
D) all of these choices.

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Danielle Singleton

1 day ago

The relatively light sentence that the Neumanns received when they attempted to use faith-healing indicates that

A) faith-healing is widely accepted in America.
B) religion no longer is important in American life.
C) whether parents neglect their children for religious or non-religious reasons is taken into account in sentencing.
D) there is a separation of Church and State in America.

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Reagan Brasher

1 day ago

The capabilities approach takes health as its primary focus.

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Aaron Aguinaga

1 day ago

If an ethical theory is based solely on intuitions then, Nussbaum claims, it has no relevance to real problems.