When it comes to medical ethics, autonomy is a very important part to consider. Medical ethics involves respecting a person's morals during health care, and autonomy is a person's freedom over their self. Autonomy is important in medical ethics for many reasons. One reason autonomy is important to consider when dealing with medical ethics is that many different cultures and religions believe in different things, especially when it comes to health care procedures, health care providers have to take this into consideration while working with patients. A second reason autonomy is important to medical ethics is because some people are very weak and vulnerable while in a healthcare setting and it is important that everyone's rights and wishes are
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Many of these cultures and religions have different beliefs, many of which deal with not participating in certain medical procedures, resulting in the patient refusing what could be a life saving procedure. Without autonomy in this situation, medical providers would do whatever they would do for any other person and do whatever they could possibly do to try to save that person's life or help the person's situation. This could result in health care professionals upsetting people by going against their wishes and beliefs, which would be going against a person's rights. Autonomy allows people to be informed of what their choices in treatments are to get the medical assistance they need while also respecting their ethical rights. An example of such a situation would be a patient from a religion that does not believe in receiving or giving blood. If this person were to be in a critical situation and refuse to receive blood even if it would result in death and the patient is aware of that, then health care providers should respect that person's wishes even if they know that they could of helped, rather they should just try to do whatever else they can for the patient as long as the patient …show more content…
Researchers have been doing a lot of research and experiments over the last few years that involve dealing with human embryos, cloning, and reproductive techniques. These experiments effect autonomy by changing the natural way of conceiving life and many people are against such experiments. For example, cloning experiments are very interesting and could be very beneficial to the world by helping cure different problems if done correctly, but to take someone's or something's DNA and make a replica of it outside of a body is wrong, both for the person or thing being cloned and for the clone. If a human were to be cloned they would have to be willing to give up their DNA and know that there will potentially be an exact replica. This could change the world for death would not be such a big of a loss anymore since family's could just have their loved one cloned and replaced. The clone would also be affected because who knows what could go wrong, but even if the clone turned out perfectly fine there would always be the overwhelming reality that they are a clone of another living person and people would probably treat and react differently to them. Then there are experiments such as new reproductive techniques like in vitro fertilization and artificial insemination, which have to deal with
Many of these cultures and religions have different beliefs, many of which deal with not participating in certain medical procedures, resulting in the patient refusing what could be a life saving procedure. Without autonomy in this situation, medical providers would do whatever they would do for any other person and do whatever they could possibly do to try to save that person's life or help the person's situation. This could result in health care professionals upsetting people by going against their wishes and beliefs, which would be going against a person's rights. Autonomy allows people to be informed of what their choices in treatments are to get the medical assistance they need while also respecting their ethical rights. An example of such a situation would be a patient from a religion that does not believe in receiving or giving blood. If this person were to be in a critical situation and refuse to receive blood even if it would result in death and the patient is aware of that, then health care providers should respect that person's wishes even if they know that they could of helped, rather they should just try to do whatever else they can for the patient as long as the patient …show more content…
Researchers have been doing a lot of research and experiments over the last few years that involve dealing with human embryos, cloning, and reproductive techniques. These experiments effect autonomy by changing the natural way of conceiving life and many people are against such experiments. For example, cloning experiments are very interesting and could be very beneficial to the world by helping cure different problems if done correctly, but to take someone's or something's DNA and make a replica of it outside of a body is wrong, both for the person or thing being cloned and for the clone. If a human were to be cloned they would have to be willing to give up their DNA and know that there will potentially be an exact replica. This could change the world for death would not be such a big of a loss anymore since family's could just have their loved one cloned and replaced. The clone would also be affected because who knows what could go wrong, but even if the clone turned out perfectly fine there would always be the overwhelming reality that they are a clone of another living person and people would probably treat and react differently to them. Then there are experiments such as new reproductive techniques like in vitro fertilization and artificial insemination, which have to deal with