Bioethics And The Penalty For Disregarding

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Everyone has to play by rules and for some these rules are known as ethics, and this fact holds true for scientist and medical doctors. Although each science field has their own unique wording to what their ethics are, they do follow a similar pattern as to what is acceptable. Looking specifically at bioethics one can see that the ideas of respecting the patient, not purposely inflicting harm, to have the best interest of the patient in mind, and finally fairness to all patients. Many of these ideas were first established in the famous Hippocrates oath, but the above principles were outlined by Tom Beauchamp and James Childress in 1979. Therefore, what exactly is meant by these guidelines, and what is the penalty for disregarding them.
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Now the way I see it does this force you to violate the first two principles. For example, let’s say you have a parent who opposes vaccines for their child, do you as a doctor with the best benefit for the child give the child a shot, thus violating the respect for the body. In my personal opinion, the doctor has the obligation to protect the child because the child would be at risk of dying without the vaccine. The last principle outlined by Beauchamp and Childress was that of justice, in which a doctor should treat everyone equal. However, this may not always be the case, because medicine is a business thus only those how can afford it can participate. This becomes apparent in the story of Henrietta Lacks. (McCormick, …show more content…

For example, do the cells still belong to her and her family and was justice served as Lacks’s family suffered from the lack of health insurance while companies make money off her cells. First, I believe that the cells now belong to humanity as a whole because of the positive effect they have in the medical field, which follows the idea of doing the greatest good. However, the bioethics were violated the minute companies and people attempted to make a profit from HeLa cells, as that benefits only the greed of others. Furthermore, her family should not have to struggle with medical bills, as the medical community and in fact, the world will forever, be in debt to the Lacks family. Furthermore, the community still uses the family, as they went to the family to try and decontaminate the HeLa cell

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