BIOETHICS AND ITS APPLICATION IN VARIOUS HEALTHCARE SITUATIONS
SEXUALITY AND HUMAN REPRODUCTION
MARRIAGE
Human sexuality and its moral Issues on Artificial Reproduction, its
evaluation is Morality and Ethico-Moral
Human Sexuality is one of the fundamental responsibility of Nurse
A legally recognized social contract between
drives behind everyone’s feelings, thoughts, Roles and Responsibilities of Nurses
two people, traditionally based on a sexual
and behaviors. It defines the means of
biological reproduction, describes relationship and implying a permanence of the Nurses have an equally important role to
psychological and sociological representations union. play in providing unbiased counselling to
of self, and orients a person’s attraction to clients, in referring them to reproductive
others. As important as sexuality is to being Forms and genetic specialists and genetic
human, it is often viewed as a taboo topic for counsellors as required and in translating
Exogamy, endogamy, monogamy, polygamy, polyandry, polygyny,
personal or scientific inquiry. Reproduction, technical medical information to those
fraternal polyandry, experimental, levirate, inter caste, anuloma,
on the other hand, is essential for the struggling to make choices about their use
hyper-gamy and hypo-gamy, pratiloma, marriage by elopement,
continuance of the human species. of reproductive and genetic technologies.
compassionate marriage, arranged marriage, love marriage As such, nurses have a responsibility to
Functions become knowledgeable about the rapidly
Ethical issues related to changing field of biological, reproductive
NATURAL Societal Recognition, Procreation Of Children, Sense Of Sympathy,
sex outside marriage and genetic breakthroughs, so they are
Basis Of Family, Stability In Relationship, Perpetuation Of Lineage
LAW able to engage in informed discussions
our sexual Fundamentals with clients and the public.
KANT
faculties have
sex will only be Love/Commitment, Sexual Faithfulness, Humility, DE SADE
one true end —
procreation morally permissible Patience/Forgiveness, Time, Honesty And Trust, nature grants us the widest possible
within the context of a Communication, Selflessness range of sexual freedom which justifies
heterosexual, lifelong, premarital sex, adultery,homosexuality
and monogamous SEX OUTSIDE MARIAGE and prostitution.
marriage Pre-marital Sex
UTILITARIANISM
having sexual Adultery Fornication
VIRTUE THEORY
Premarital sex, or homosexual sex, relations with voluntary sexual pursuing sexual
or masturbation, or oral sex can be another person, intercourse contact outside a certain sexual activity is right or wrong will
morally acceptable. The matter is before a marriage between a of marriage, depend on whether a virtuous agent would do
decided by whether or not married person without the that act, and that would depend on whether
performing that act brings about Fornication and someone benefit of the activity fitted within the Golden Mean.
more pleasure overall than not other than his or marriage,
two people who are romantically her lawful VIRTUE THEORY
doing so. before
involved choose to live together spouse marriage, or all sexual activities are morally permissible as a
without making the formal
even in matter of liberty, as long as one’s conduct does
commitment of marriage
marriage not harm someone else.
