Exam 15: Ethics and Nutrition Practice

Which of the following was drafted as a set of standards for judging physicians and scientists who had conducted biomedical experiments on concentration camp prisoners?

From which of the following sources do nutrition scientists receive research funding?

Basic ethical principles are general judgments that serve as a justification for the particular ethical prescriptions and evaluations of human actions.

Moral obligation is the duty to act in a particular way in response to moral norms.

The purpose of moral obligation is to enable people to increase control over factors that affect their personal health and to prevent the incidence of chronic health conditions.

Which of the following is the freedom for an individual to choose which actions to take?

The January 1999 Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) stated that the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and its Commission on Dietetic Registration had adopted a voluntary, enforceable:

Plausibility is one of the three basic ethical principles?

What is the meaning of nonmaleficence?

Dietitians who are employed the food industry (such as cereal, dairy, or fast-food companies) do not encounter moral dilemmas.

Foundations for rules are called a framework.

Ethics is defined as the study of the nature and justification of principles that guide human behaviors and are applied when moral problems arise.

The following is an example of what ethical issue? The dietitian has an obligation to the funding agency, but also obligations to the profession of dietetics, to the public, and to the community to provide accurate and complete information that is not misleading.

Josh decided to look for ways to make an accurate ethical decision. Which of the following is not the best way?

Basic ethical principles refer to those general judgments that serve as justification for the particular ethical prescriptions and evaluations of human actions. The basic principles, among those generally accepted in the cultural traditions of the United States, are:

Which of the following is a statement of basic ethical principles and guidelines that should assist in resolving the ethical problems that surround conducting research with human subjects?

Many organizations, universities, and hospitals have what type of board that works to assure human subjects are protected?

Beneficence includes two general rules: do not harm, and maximize possible benefits and minimize possible harms.

The Ethics Committee is not responsible for enforcing the code.

JoAnn and Andrea are dietitians at the public health department. They were both in the elevator one day when Andrea started discussing problems her client is having. As an ethical decision, JoAnn tells Andrea she will discuss her situation when they are out of the elevator. This was: