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The _________________ is focused on respecting the rights and dignity of others. For example, before making a decision, you think through the legal and moral rights of each stakeholder and make your decision based on honoring those specific rights.  

Now that you are near the end of this course, rate your ability to describe normal anatomy and physiology of individual body systems and clinical syndromes, identifying life-long developmental changes

Now that you are near the end of this course, please rate your ability to interpret physical findings and diagnostic data for clinical decision-making. 

According to Ethics Unwrapped: Justice, there are several different categories or types of justice.  Of the statements given below about these types of justice, which statement is NOT true?

The ____________________approach to ethics focuses on doing the most good and least amount of harm. For example, before making a decision, you consider which outcome will benefit the greatest number of people.   

In Ethics Unwrapped: Moral Relativism, you learned that normative moral relativism 

Which modern era philosopher promoted the view that God is a “clockmaker” who made the world, set it in motion, but is uninterested and uninvolved in the daily affairs of humans?

According to this early enlightenment philosopher, math and reason were all that was needed to discover truth in the sciences.   He is considered one of the two “fathers” of the Age of Enlightenment and proposed the “clock-maker” theory of creation.

Now that you are near the end of this course, please rate your ability to correlate the pathophysiology learned to patient disease states.

Keith and Heather were discussing cosmetic surgery one day. “I’m thinking of having my hippocampus removed,” said Keith. “It’s so tiny, and I just think my brain would look more streamlined without it.” “Yeah…why don’t you look into that,” Heather replied in sarcastic disbelief. Why does Heather think Keith is pursuing a dramatically foolish idea?