Role Of Ethical Decision Making In Flowers For Algernon

Playing god isn’t frowned upon because of religious or moral objections. Instead, it is a feared because of the unintended social consequences that might occur. Victor’s failure to even consider the possibilities, both bad and good, of what his scientific discovery might create clearly violates the code of ethics pertaining to social responsibility. In this case, reviving the dead didn’t promote social welfare or prevent harm. It did quite the opposite actually, as Victor’s creature ended up bringing fear into the hearts of many, and death to the special

Dr. Nemur and Dr. Straus did not act ethically when they preformed the operation on Charlie Gordon. They did not act ethically because the doctors did not want what was best for Charlie, they wanted what was best for them. They did not want to help Charlie they wanted to help themselves. The operation was not not preformed in the patients best interest. It is very important that the doctors want to do what is best for the patient, but that is not that case in this situation.

Already within the medical practice, human experimentation on patients was a way for doctors to do cheap research to better the community or to make discoveries to make themselves famous. As was true for Henrietta Lacks, doctors did not always seek patient consent for the procedures that the medical facility was performing on them. During one of her procedures, a nurse took an additional cell sample from her cervix that was not needed to be removed (Skloot 33). Due to this disrespect of the person's being, the procedures often got taken too far, mentally and physically. Body parts were removed, side effects were not explained, and lives were lost.

The doctors did not explain what they were doing to Charlie. The reader can tell this because in the story Charlie is often puzzled about the tests that the doctors are performing (Keyes). For example he does not understand the Rorschach test at all. He thinks that there are hidden pictures in the ink while what they actually are looking for him to do is imagine a picture from the ink

Unit 5: Lesson 3: Flowers for Algernon, Part 1 Apply: In the story, "Flowers for Algernon, Part 1", One example of irony in this story was when Charlie had reacted to his inkblots tests. The reason I choose this was ironic is because of his responses. He saw that there was nothing in the inkblots, but when everyone else could see stuff in them he saw nothing wrong with that. This was situational irony.

The Reich government’s guidelines were supposed to protect the Jewish people, but they were so overlooked and unpowerful that they might as well have not even been there. The Nazi doctors were going to do what they wanted because they saw no consequences in their actions because of the situation that was the Holocaust. If another Jewish person died, to the Nazis that mean one step closer to reaching their goal. It is said in the guidelines that written documentation of the experiment and the experimental process itself were required before each clinical trial (Vollmann, 1996), but judging by how little information was presented after each one of these experiments, we know that the doctors involved in these experiments did not follow up on their end of the agreement. Doctors involved in these 20th century experiments were not thinking of their patients, but of themselves, and it is highly disappointing that our medical practices and systems of ethical treatment had not evolved whatsoever after experiencing and dealing with the horrible medical exploitation of black slaves in the 19th century.

The choice of using Charlie Gordon in Daniel Keyes’ book, Flowers for Algernon, for an intelligence altering surgery was unethical and biased. The first reason that Charlie should not have been chosen for the surgery is that it left him and his life in worse condition than when before the surgery. “ I dont want Miss Kinnian to feel sorry for me. Evry body feels sorry at the factery and I dont want that eather

Problem of staff. In this case study, I found out there had human errors on staff. Human error is “A failure of a planned action to achieve a desired outcome” (Human error, n. d.). From the beginning part of the statement, we knew that the untrained anesthesiologist had make a wrong decision to accept the oxygen tank for the intention of saving Michael’s life. The human error made by medical worker In the human error classification, Reason (1990) said “Greater understanding of the why of human error is provided by a popular approach based, in part, on the distinction between whether the inappropriate action was intended or not”.

Kino was furious about it, but he was powerless, he was vulnerable and weak. However, the doctor’s attitude transformed when he heard about the pearl, and he was suddenly willing to treat the baby. He knew he could trick Kino and give Coytito the wrong medicine; Kino might be aware but “he couldn’t’ take the

The motives of the citizens are not trustworthy or good intentions at all. The corruption of “Hamlet” is all the dishonesty and betrayal by the loved ones. Honesty is the cure to save Denmark from doom, but nobody will risk their position on the kingdom especially “King” Claudius. Shakespeare uses the elements of diseases, decay, and poison to help make his words come to life

But unfortunately, the experiment was also never clearly explained to them, they had thought it was just the best possible treatment expected to cure the sickness they might have had. Many unethical practices were evident in this study, in this case, the most important one was informed consent, which is a consent given by a patient to a doctor for treatment with full knowledge of the possible risks and benefits. None of the participants in the Tuskegee study

This is a result of racism, which is essentially the only reason why the Lacks family were not given money for the use of their family member’s tissue. “...careless journalists and researchers who violated the family’s privacy by publishing everything from Henrietta 's medical records to the family’s genetic information,” (Skloot). Not only were the cells taken without Lacks’ permission, but the medical records of the family were published without the family’s consent. None of the publishers view this as a violation of privacy, most likely because the race of the family. “‘Scientists don’t like to think of HeLa cells as being little bits of Henrietta because it’s much easier to do science when you dissociate your materials from the people they come from,”’ (Skloot).

People against his research would say that he had no right to say these things because the people that he would single out in his articles were pioneers and were working before standards were set for human research (Rothman, 1991). This exactly states the problem as to what bioethicists and Beecher were trying to fix, which was the lack of thought and care for putting a human being through potential pain and torture without their knowledge and consent. Researchers will no longer be allowed to be the martyrs of thousands of innocent people in the name of unethical and non consensual scientific experimentation (Rothman,

The government’s actions were not constitutional, because they did not follow the precedent case, used technology that exceeded human senses, and violated DLK’s right to privacy in his home.

Tommy Varhall Miss putman Hour 4 15 november 2016 Argument essay Ethics is the knowledge of something wright or wrong. Charlie Gordon is a 37 year old man who lives in New york and has an IQ of 68 and has been going to class for adults to help him read. He works at a job and gets made fun of and then an opportunity pops up for him to get smart and he accepts and becomes. The doctors only did it so they could get credit and the fame.