Ethical And Non-Medical Community

In most aspects of life we face the need to make decisions and choose right from wrong, or use personal judgement and morals to decide. These are all aspects of what we refer to as ethics and ethical principles. Within different communities there are diverse core values and ethical principles that can become individualized and bases on personal integrity and beliefs. In the medical world we have medical ethics, which, then consist of a code of ethics based on your discipline that sets a standard of behavior within your job. Here I look at one article and how it relates to the medical and non-medical community, as well as, the ethical dilemma’s surrounding the issues discussed (McTeigue, J., Lee, W. C., & Aiken, T. D. 2015).

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The article

Sometimes this comes down to weighing out the options, of the good versus the bad based on the information present. Nonmaleficence is doing no harm or the least amount, which can actually be seen in several ways in this article. First, there is the patient who is having the abortion, are we doing harm in using the fetus or potentiating psychological conflict. This can already be a very difficult time for any woman to go through, nonetheless, are these study’s making it worse with the mental images of the fetus being used for

Dr Gu defended his work by stating “it is better to use these parts for research than just throw them in a trash bin” although most people still find his work very controversial (Chang, NK. Gu, J. & Gu. S., 2015). Though it is perceived in our society as unacceptable to transplant human parts in to animals we must look at the bigger picture and the possibility of eliminating organ shortages. Research found that most people are more objectionable to this type of research when brains or sex organs are involved. However, we must still look at the core principles here and see that in the long term despite the controversy it is for the greater good (McTeigue, J., Lee, W. C., & Aiken, T. D.