The Robotic Surgery Assignment

Running head: ROBOTIC SURGERY
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Post 1:
Among some of the respected ways of considering various ethical issues are
utilitarianism, social contract theory, character based ethics and deontology. Brief overviews
of these four different perspectives are given below:
1. Utilitarianism- This is considered one of the prominent perspectives on ethics and this is
economic oriented having a free market outlook. Utilitarianism lays stress on results rather
than on rules. According to this, any action is said to be as a good action only if it maximizes
happiness or provides pleasure to the society (Siqueira-Batista, Souza, Maia & Siqueira,
2016). The emphasis in this case is put on the best possible results and it comes with an
assumption that individuals should be able to measure the utilities that are involved.
2. Character based ethics- This is also termed as virtue ethics and the vesture theory focuses
on the significance of virtual qualities instead of formal rules and results (Sullins, 2015).
Fourteen virtues that have been identified under this and are ranked as well are given below:
(1) Courage
(2) Temperance
(3) Liberality
(4) Magnificence
(5) Pride
(6) High-mindedness
(7) Unnamed virtue which is halfway between ambition and total lack of effort
(8) Gentleness

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(9) Truthfulness
(10) Wit
(11) Friendliness
(12) Modesty
(13) Righteous indignation
(14) Justice.
From the above 14 virtues the two virtues that have been found applicable for this
context are high-mindedness and pride. High-mindedness and pride are required in IT
professionals so that they can be confident about their work and come up with best outcomes.
3. Social contract theory- This theory can be best explained by the example that in a society
people hand in specific rights to the government so that they can in return give them security
as well as take care of their common benefits (Sade, 2015). The modern social contract
theories are of the opinion that at present it can be said that in each and every community
there are some or other social contracts.
4. Deontology- This perspective aims at having a certain moral intent and abiding by the
right rules is always a better way to ethical conduct rather than focusing on achieving right
results (Ferreres, 2015). A deontologist is of the opinion that ethical actions arise from
performing one’s duty and these duties in turn are defined by certain rational thoughts.
Robotic surgery can be better termed as remote controlled surgery because till date
there has not been any fully automated surgery by the robots. These are always led by
surgeons and it can be said that continuously under the surveillance as well as their control.
As per the utilitarianism perspective, the results of the actions should provide happiness as