-Autonomy: the ability to make decisions unaided by others. Or patient over a certain age has the right to refuse treatment.
-Veracity: legal principle that states that a health professional should be honest and give full disclosure to the patient. Which basically means, “informed consent”.
-Fidelity: that is a healthcare provider satisfying his duties.
-Beneficence: The habit, intention, or practice of doing well. Also, it means doing what is best in the interests of the patient.
-Non-maleficence: when you can no longer do well, you shouldn’t do harm like performing major surgery on a terminally ill patient.
-Justice: that means no patient should be discriminated against in receiving treatment.
Using these as 6 criterion, describe how each of these characteristics related back to the legal arguments and behaviors exhibited by the prosecuting and defense attorneys in this case. (12 points)
The first term is autonomy. In the story, Kate wants to end her life because she does not want her sister Anna to
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The idea of creating a child that is a genetic match to another to act as a donor is very debatable. Some believe that man should not act like God and try to create a specific kind of person. Others believe that as the parents are not choosing an eye or hair color or some other inconsequential characteristic that there isn't much of a problem. In this book, Anna was originally created in order to use the umbilical cord blood. It was never planned for her to act as a donor to her sister for her entire life. The blood transfusions might be uncomfortable at the moment but they are potentially life-saving and a small sacrifice. However, a bone marrow extraction is excruciatingly painful and is much more traumatic than donating blood. Then Anna is asked to donate a kidney, which is a major operation and a major, permanent impact on her