Abstract
When it comes to the management of non-profit organizations, our country¡¦s academic sector has always placed an emphasis on the organization¡¦s decision making nuclei or those in command, and their effects on the fulfillment of organizational goals, resources placed into operation, efficiency, satisfaction, and other such self-management analysis. Seldom did they adopt an ¡§ethically-oriented¡¨ method of management. Instead they viewed the medical industry as a for-profit business, stressing business strategies and marketing, and therefore regarded patients as customers.
This Study¡¦s Characteristics:
1. Focuses on medical and religious philosophies for investigation. Unlike single-issue studies, this study uses medicine as the primary basis for its perspective, and adds religious beliefs (Buddhism) to probe each health care morality issue. Health care morality issues include: abortion, cloning, euthanasia, organ transplants, and hospice care. In addition to ethical standpoints on medicine, using the sorted investigations on religious documents, we looked deeper into the viewpoints of Buddhism.
2. Feature: Besides investigating the morality of the body and flesh of ordinary medicine, we probed further into the root of the ethics of the mind. In retrospect to ¡§Medical Ethics¡¨, and the viewpoints of eastern and western medicine, we went beyond the perceptions of ordinary medicine, and explored a deeper plane of the mind, so as to increase the depth of health care ethics.
Results:
Through a factor analysis, we ended up with 10 factors: (hospice care, euthanasia, surrogate mothers, cloning and genetic issues, therapeutic art, religious care, stem cells, medical ethics, and abortion issues) and analyzed them according to 3 morality decision models to identify which is the best suited. Results: efficiency model and ethics model had positive effects on hospice care and therapeutic ethics, while as liability model had negative effects; liability model and ethics model had positive effects on religious care, medical ethics, and abortion issues; all 3 models, efficiency model, ethics model, and liability model, had positive effects on genetic issues and stem cells; efficiency model had positive effects on euthanasia, while as ethics model had negative effects; liability model had positive effects on surrogate mothers; liability model had positive effects on cloning issues, while as efficiency model and ethics model had opposite effects.
Did people have different attitudes towards health care ethics? Results: the general public and medical personnel had significantly different attitudes towards hospice care, genetic issues, and therapeutic ethics; medical personnel, religious personnel, and the general public had significantly different attitudes towards religious care, stem cells, and abortion issues; medical personnel, patients, religious personnel, and the general public had significantly different attitudes towards medical ethics; medical personnel and religious personnel had significantly different attitudes towards euthanasia; the opinions of the groups were unanimous towards surrogate mothers and cloning issues.
As to individual orientation, the higher the person¡¦s education level, the less he or she places emphasis on health care morality issues. Perhaps since medical ethics is only beginning to be drawn attention to in our country, most people with a higher degree of education have not yet concerned themselves to this level. In summary, this is worth the attention of our current education ministry.
Key words¡GMedical Ethics¡AHuman Cloning¡AHospice
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0822102-103203 |
| Date | 22 August 2002 |
| Creators | CHI, CHING-HUI |
| Contributors | none, none, Shu-Chuan Jennifer Yeh |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0822102-103203 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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