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Ethical Dilemma: Post 1
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Post 1: Answer to the ethical dilemma through the lens of each of the
ethical theories
The health department has developed the inclusion of robotic arms for assisting the
operations after the development of several issues that was reported for the human arm during
an operation. It was developed as a safe, efficient and effective Healthcare service that would
never prove to be faulty due to the performance of micro accurate procedures that the robotic
arms has the potential of performing even on Deep tissues within the body. However several
bioethical issues were found to be seen due to the utilisation of robot arms as it was found
that the process might be entirely smooth but the technology behind the of robotic arms is not
risk free at all. With the utilization, development and implementation of the robotic arms and
the ethical issues arising due to it would be analysed as per the dilemma represented by the
ethical theories [1]. Following would be a detailed discussion of the use of robotic arms in
operations and the ethical theories behind them:
Utilitarianism
The ethical theory of utilitarianism represents the model theory which helps in
advocating the actions that would promote the overall positivity behind an action and reject
any actions that might cause the disadvantage to the situation. It is a positive ethical theory
that places the locus of incorrect and correct based on the outcome [2]. The implementation
of robotic arms Where are represented because it had the most efficient, effective and safe
potential of performing operations even on Deep tissues within the body. There are chances
that it could not be represented with precise perfection if a human arm of a doctor oral
surgeon performs the operation. However if the technology of a robotic arm is utilised in the
same place, There are several types of operation that one single robotic arm can be program
to control reducing the human toil. However it has also been found that there is several

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occasions where the robotic arms where rejected to be used due to the problems and issues
that it has caused. The utilisation of robotic arms provided issues to a patient suffering from
prostate cancer where the robotic procedure provided negative impact on his health due to the
implant of surgery [3]. The overall intrinsic value of the action for the robotic arm was to
perform the best possible procedure for the keyhole operation so that the patient can be cured
of the prostate cancer, but the outcome of the process provided negative impact on the health
of the patient, which means that the process was an ethical to carry forward.
Deontology
The concept of deontological ethics is a concept that affect the normative ethical
theory of an action to be regarded as moral or immoral. This aspect of the action sets its
theory of being right or wrong according to the consequences of the action. Therefore, in case
of this particular action it can be said that the logic behind implementing the robotic arms for
operating the patient was extremely e ethical as it was meant for enhancing the customer
service that would provide the patients with a better and effective way of operation without
any failure during the process [4]. Human hand can be vulnerable to several emotional and
physical issues which might cause problems during and ongoing operation. To eliminate this
particular problem the introduction of robotic arms in in an operation was introduced.
However according to the latest resultant report of the patient suffering from prostate cancer,
it was found that due to the fault in the robotic arm and its programming, the ongoing
operation could have nearly caused the patient death. The intention behind the introduction of
robotic arms for the operation was to ensure that the operation was not vulnerable to general
human errors, but the consequences of the action resulted into the further ill health of the
person and was even close to cause the person death. Therefore according to the
deontological ethical theory, it can be said that the procedure was unethical.