John K Davis | Conscientious Refusal and a Doctor's Right to to Quit

question 6

Multiple Choice

John K. Davis | Conscientious Refusal and a Doctor's Right to Quit
Davis argues that doctors have a right to conscientious refusal to treat a patient as long as they do not make the patient worse off than he or she would have been had they not gone to the doctor in the first place. This refusal is justified by the restitution approach, which further settles a number of moral controversies that can arise from an "ethics of quitting."
-The more the patient loses by the refusal, the more ___________ the doctor must make.

• A) resolution
• B) restitution
• C) termination
• D) curtailment

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Definitions:

Physical Stimulus

Any external factor that can provoke a physical response or reaction from a biological organism.

Transduction

The process of converting one form of energy into another, as in sensory systems where physical stimuli are converted into neural signals.

Sensory Coding

The process through which the nervous system represents the qualities of the incoming stimulus— whether auditory or visual, for example, or whether a red light or a green one, a sour taste or a sweet taste.

Neural Signal

Electrical or chemical signals transmitted by neurons to communicate information throughout the brain and nervous system.