You Are Conducting a Study to Assess a New Fecal

question 19

Multiple Choice

You are conducting a study to assess a new fecal occult blood test for colorectal cancer. There are 277 people ages 50-74 in your study. A total of 206 people test negative. Seven people have the disease and test positive. 257 people don't have colorectal cancer and 193 of them test negative. What is the probability that if someone has the disease the test will correctly identify him/her as having the disease?

• A) 93.7%
• B) 9.9%
• C) 75.1%
• D) 35%

Explain the ethical dilemmas caused by certain categorical imperatives.

Describe Kant's perspective on moral law and its expression.

Understand Kant's stance on treating people as means versus ends.

Characterize Kant's theory as deontological and its emphasis on the nature of actions rather than their consequences.

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Definitions:

Penicillins

A group of antibiotics derived from Penicillium fungi, used to treat bacterial infections.

Pharmacotherapeutics

The study of how drugs are used to treat disease; also called clinical pharmacology.

Pharmacodynamics

The study of what drugs do to the body: the mechanism of action, or how they work to produce a therapeutic effect.

Mineral Source

A naturally occurring substance from which minerals can be extracted or obtained for various uses.