A Patient Requests Multiple Cosmetic Surgeries

question 4

Multiple Choice

A patient requests multiple cosmetic surgeries. At a certain point, the health care team questions whether the overall harm that will result from continuing to do these procedures will outweigh the benefits. Which ethical principle is most related to this discussion about weighing harms against benefits?  

• A)beneficence  
• B)non-maleficence  
• C)justice  
• D)veracity

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Definitions:

Enlightenment

An intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries, emphasizing reason, individualism, and skepticism of traditional doctrines.

Boston Massacre

Clash between British soldiers and a Boston mob, March 5, 1770, in which five colonists were killed.

Sons of Liberty

A group of colonial American patriots who organized against the British government prior to the American Revolution, protesting against taxation without representation.

Tea Act

A 1773 act of the British Parliament that granted the East India Company the right to sell tea to the American colonies free of taxes imposed on colonial tea importers, leading to the Boston Tea Party.