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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.

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rebecca villamizar

1 day ago

W.D. Ross rejects pluralistic approaches to ethics in favor of a duty-based approach.

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Rupal Singh

1 day ago

Martha Nussbaum endorses a capabilities approach to ethics.

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Rishi Suresh

1 day ago

One criticism of feminist ethics is that it is too unified and dogmatic a view to prove useful.

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Shemica Ferdinand

1 day ago

Autonomy is an absolute right and should never be restricted under any circumstances.

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Bre'ana English

1 day ago

One of the most serious objections to utilitarianism is that it may justify the imposition of great suffering on a few people in order to benefit a great many of people.

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KingKhalil Jacob

1 day ago

According to the Principle of Effort, the president of a company should receive a greater share of social "goods" than his/her file clerk (assuming that they both work equally as hard) because the president's contributions to society are inherently more important and difficult.

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Harris Adarme

1 day ago

Immanuel Kant believes that an action is right when it is in accordance with a rule that satisfies a principle that he calls the "categorical imperative" and thus he believes that the consequences of an action are morally irrelevant.

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Laura Rodriguez

1 day ago

Utilitarianism focuses solely upon some inherent feature(s) of an action itself and is unconcerned with the consequences that an action produces.

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Janae Lemon

1 day ago

Act utilitarians maintain that the principle of utility should be used to test rules, which can in turn be used to decide the rightness of particular acts.

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Brittney Duggins

1 day ago

Rule utilitarians hold that the principle of utility should be applied to particular acts in particular circumstances.

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LaKendra Michelle'

1 day ago

Annas and Grodin argue that if research will benefit a population in a developing nation then there is no need to secure the informed consent of the participants from that nation.

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Heather Nguyen

1 day ago

David Resnik holds that research funding as it is currently practiced is unjust.

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Kathleen Nikole Gracia

1 day ago

A cosmopolitan view of distributive justice considers the distribution of resources to be a global issue.

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Anthony Anderson

2 days ago

The medical importance of infectious diseases to global health is reflected in the pay scale of physicians who specialize in this area.

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Chelsea Harris

2 days ago

The majority of healthcare resources are devoted to solving the problems of the developing word.