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A Competent Patient Is Refusing a Life-Saving Treatment for Religious

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A competent patient is refusing a life-saving treatment for religious reasons. Their physician is distressed by this refusal, but reasons that respect for the rights and autonomy of the patient trumps all other considerations. To ignore the patient's decision to refuse treatment would be to treat the patient merely as a means and not as an end. This physician is adhering to a _______ moral theory in their reasoning.


Definitions:

Retrograde Amnesia

A form of amnesia where an individual loses pre-existing memories to some extent, but does not prevent the formation of new memories.

Hippocampus

A region of the brain that is associated with memory formation, navigation, and spatial orientation.

Cerebral Cortex

The outermost layer of the forebrain.

Anterograde Amnesia

A condition in which a person is unable to form new memories after the event that caused the amnesia, despite being able to recall past events prior to the injury.

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