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Medical Ethics

Medical Ethics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU_rTX23V7Q. Psalm 139. Psalm 139: 13-16 You formed my inmost being; You knit me in my mother’s womb. I praise you, so wonderfully you made me; Wonderful are your works! My very self you knew; My bones were not hidden from you,

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Medical Ethics

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  1. Medical Ethics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU_rTX23V7Q

  2. Psalm 139 Psalm 139: 13-16 You formed my inmost being; You knit me in my mother’s womb. I praise you, so wonderfully you made me; Wonderful are your works! My very self you knew; My bones were not hidden from you, When I was being made in secret, Fashioned as in the depths of the earth.

  3. Objectives • Respect for life underlies all Church teaching about medical technology and practice. • Procedures that are now scientifically feasible are not necessarily moral. • Church teaching on the beginning of life rejects abortion.

  4. Hippocratic Oath • Hippocrates : 400-300 BCE • “To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug nor give advise which may cause his/her death…nor will I give a woman a pessary to procure abortion.”

  5. Medical Ethics • Refers to moral decisions related to medical research and medical practice

  6. Medical Ethics • Reproductive technology: refers to scientific procedures that are related to procreation and the early stages of life.

  7. Medical Ethics • DNA: a product of reproductive technology. It is the intricate interlocking chain of genetic material that makes up all living cells.

  8. Artificial Insemination: A procedure whereby the semen of a husband or another donor is place in the vagina, cervical canal, or uterus by means other than sexual intercourse. • AIH: by the husband • AID: by an other donor

  9. Medical Ethics • In Vitro Fertilization: a process by where the females ovum is injected with male sperm in a petri dish and the embryo is then implanted back in the females uterus.

  10. Medical Ethics • Ovum: a female’s egg cell • Embryo: a fertilized egg possessing a unique genetic makeup

  11. Medical Ethics • Infertility: an inability to bring about conception (for a man) or to conceive a child (woman) through natural methods.

  12. Medical Ethics • Surrogate Mother: a woman who agrees to be artificially impregnated by a man married to another woman and to relinquish at birth legal custody of the child to the man and his wife.

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