Given Consequentialism, a Medical Decision for a Patient Is Right

question 12

Multiple Choice

Given consequentialism, a medical decision for a patient is right in the case that …

• A) It treats the patient as a person
• B) It maximizes health benefits, or minimizes harms
• C) It distributes health care resources fairly
• D) All of the above

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Definitions:

Psychological Health

A state of well-being where an individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with normal stresses of life, work productively, and contribute to the community.

Humanistic Therapies

Treatments that uniquely emphasize people’s self-healing capacities and that encourage clients to understand themselves and to grow personally.

Psychodynamic Therapies

A group of therapies that focus on uncovering and understanding unconscious motives and conflicts as a path to symptom resolution.

Systematic Desensitization

A behavior therapy that treats anxiety by teaching the client to associate deep relaxation with increasingly intense anxiety-producing situations.