Deck 8: Biomedical Issues and Euthanasia

Question 1

Situational ethics suggests that it is ethical to treat humans in different ways.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Presently 75 percent of women choosing abortion agree to donate fetal tissues,which are later exchanged for "site fee" rent for laboratory space where technicians perform their dissections.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

According to DeVries and Subedi,bioethicists represent the patient,protecting her or his autonomy against the power of medicine.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

There is a company in the United States that currently sends letters to people who have declared bankruptcy and offers them $45,000,plus expenses,to donate a kidney.

Question 5

Presently,the number one reason for nondonation of an organ is denial of consent by the donor's family.

Question 6

According to the sanctity-of-life philosophy,those favoring a quality-of-life philosophy tend to have a built-in bias against the disabled and mentally impaired.

Question 7

Bioethicists have a medical and legal authority to implement medical decisions made by hospital review boards.

Question 8

"Xenotransplantation" refers to the use of animal organs for transplantation proposes.

Question 9

The Japanese head the list of developed countries of the world in performing heart transplants.

Question 10

The "Living Will" is an instrument that reflects an active euthanasia perspective.

Question 11

The quality-of-life perspective would contend that all "natural" life has intrinsic meaning and should be appreciated as a divine gift.

Question 12

In the United States mercy killing is considered murder.

Question 13

The Department of Transportation has traditionally used human cadavers to measure the effectiveness of various crash protective devices in automobile collisions.

Question 14

People favoring the quality-of-life position base their perspective on modern medicine's successes,not failures.

Question 15

Passive euthanasia may hasten the death of a dying patient.

Question 16

People committed to a sanctity-of-life perspective agree that "ordinary" life support (such as forced feeding of food and water)should never be withdrawn from dying patients.

Question 17

The U.S.euthanasia society supports the right of any individual to take his or her own life through suicide regardless of motivation.

Question 18

People favoring a sanctity-of-life philosophy would oppose active euthanasia.

Question 19

Extraordinary and ordinary treatment for dying patients are highly relativistic concepts.

Question 20

The right of patients to refuse or discontinue treatment is now an acknowledged aspect of American medicine.

Question 21

Which of the following statements is True?

A)Compassion and Choices considers suicide and self-deliverance to be the same.
B)Compassion and Choices supports the right of active,rational,and voluntary euthanasia for all terminal patients.
C)Compassion and Choices supports the right of any individual to take his or her own life through suicide regardless of motivation.
D)The former name of the Compassion and Choices was the British Voluntary Euthanasia Society.
E)None of the above.

Question 22

Which of the following statements is False concerning the sanctity-of-life perspective on euthanasia?

A)It would oppose active euthanasia.
B)It would have a built-in bias against the disabled and mentally impaired.
C)It would reject suicide and self-deliverance.
D)It would contend that all "natural" life has intrinsic meaning and should be appreciated as a divine gift.
E)It would support the Hippocratic tradition in medicine.

Question 23

If there were no new candidates for organs,it would take approximately four years to eliminate the backlog of candidates waiting for organs in the United States.

Question 24

Euthanasia is defined as

A)a good death.
B)a mercy killing.
C)a natural death without medical technologies that extend life and prolong death.
D)all of the above.
E)none of the above.

Question 25

It is a felony in most states to assist another to commit suicide.

Question 26

The U.S.euthanasia society is presently called

A)USES.
B)EXIT.
C)the Hemlock Society.
D)the American Voluntary Euthanasia Society.
E)Compassion and Choices

Question 27

Suicide and self-deliverance are considered to be the same by the U.S.euthanasia society.

Question 28

An act of suicide committed by a clinically depressed patient would be supported by

A)people who adopt a quality-of-life philosophy.
B)people who adopt a sanctity-of-life philosophy.
C)people who favor passive euthanasia.
D)people who favor active euthanasia.
E)none of the above.

Question 29

Which of the following statements is True?

A)In the United States,50 percent of the medical expenditures that an individual will incur during his or her lifetime will be for medical services delivered in the final six months of life.
B)U.S.public policy relative to health care is based on utilitarianism.
C)Passive euthanasia will not affect the timing of death for the dying patient.
D)In the United States passive euthanasia is considered murder.
E)All forms of passive euthanasia are illegal in the United States.

Question 30

Physician-assisted death (PAD)is legal in

A)Montana.
B)Washington.
C)Vermont.
D)Oregon.
E)All of the above.

Question 31

A document that states one does not want medical intervention to be kept alive if the quality of life is not good or hope for recovery is dismal is called

A)a holographic will.
B)a legal will.
C)a living will.
D)a deadly will.
E)none of the above.

Question 32

The U.S.euthanasia society supports the right of active,rational,and voluntary euthanasia for all terminal patients.

Question 33

Active,voluntary euthanasia is legal in the Netherlands,Belgium,France,and Hungary.

Question 34

Willed-body programs with surplus cadavers are not allowed to sell body parts.

Question 35

Which of the following statements is True?

A)Passive euthanasia may hasten the death of a dying patient.
B)In the United States mercy killing is considered murder.
C)All forms of active euthanasia are illegal in the United States.
D)Suicide and self-deliverance are considered to be the same under most state laws.
E)All of the above.

Question 36

Which of the following statements is False?

A)In the United States mercy killing is considered murder.
B)All forms of active euthanasia are illegal in the United States.
C)Compassion and Choices supports the right of any individual to take his or her own life through suicide regardless of motivation.
D)It is a felony in most states to assist another to commit suicide.
E)None of the above.

Question 37

There is currently a ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

Question 38

The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act to help answer questions concerning transplantations has been adopted by ____ states.

A)15
B)32
C)50
D)48
E)No state has yet adopted the act.

Question 39

Physician-assisted suicide is legal in the United States only in Oregon.