medical ethics
...you can just as simply pick up and leave. 2, Progress no longer depend on future habits. 3, Every community is entitled to their own standards. 4, If you believe every country has a right to do what they want, then you cannot say that what a person does is wrong. 2a) The ideas of paternalism are having the rights as an adult and to have the wishes that one chooses for themselves. People are set to act independently when they are the outcome of deliberations and choices. The ideas of liberty are having the right to choose anything that there is in life, freedom of speech, religion, economics and so on. 2b) Miller’s article deals with a living will to do anything and to make your own decisions. This article is showing examples of patients that are hospitalized. In the first case the patient is suffering from stomach cancer. The patient asked not to be resuscitated. In the second case the patient is a Jehovah’s witness that needs a blood transfusion. The patient refuses treatment due to his religious beliefs. In the third case the patient does not know why he is getting sick, by the results of his test we found out that he has meningitis. In the fourth case a person tries to commit suicide and his family places him in to the hospital without his consent. 2c) In cases one through four the doctors violated the patients right to make their own decisions. In the first case the doctor resuscitated the patient. In the second case the doctor called in a lawyer from the hospital which was a violation of the patients rights. In the third case the doctor kept trying to change the patient’s mind by letting him know that brain damage was very likely. In the fourth case the doctor used the patients abusive nature to say that he was not in the right state of mind to make a decision, which was just an excuse to keep the patient under observation. 2d) Each patient should have the right to make his own choices or autonomy. Kant would use the rule of the four senses of autonomy, which are authentic, moral values, free action and informed consent. 2f) Mill would ask the doctors to let the patients take care of themselves, for it is not up to the doctors to determine what is best for the patients but the patients themselves. 2e) Miller states that one cannot impose their paternalism on other people but the individual must make their own choices. Miller applies this to the four cases by stating this as free action, but if there is a reason to believe that they are not authentic then the doctor can help the patient to figure out and reach an authentic decision. 3a) The function of a human being is that in a complete life which i...