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Ethics in Medical Care: A Deontological Approach

   

Added on  2020-03-16

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Fetal Abnormality2Fetal AbnormalityEthics in medical care require making decisions between preserving life and taking away an individual’s life. Different strands of thought in ethical decision making exist that shape the decisions that are formed by practitioners within the field of medical care. These are utilitarianism and deontological approach. These theories guide the ethical dilemmas that exist inconflict on duty. This is based on four fundamental principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice[CITATION GGa11 \l 1033 ]. This essay analyses the application of utilitarianism in the fetal abnormality case study.UtilitarianismProponents of this theory base their decisions on actions that maximize the utility of the individual. This means that the sum of all pleasures that will be derived from a situation need to uphold the basic happiness principle. Utilitarian approach is based on decisions that lead to the greatest benefit to the individual and achieving of total utility[ CITATION Har05 \l 1033 ]. This is a consequentialism approach where outcomes are based on morality of the intervention that maximizes pleasure and reduces pain. Every decision that a medical practitioner arrives at is based on a balance between benefits and harms without considering other factors like past experiences or evidence[ CITATION Rac12 \l 1033 ]. This means that the healthcare system and resources need to be used to achieve the best outcome to the patient. In making medical decisions practitioners are required to weigh circumstances and the state of the decisions to determine the benefit that the result of the decision will bring to the patient. DeontologyMandal, Ponnambath, & Parija, (2016) suggest that deontology is an ethics of duty that looks at the morality of the action and the nature of the action. This means that the decision may

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