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The notions of right and bad action are referred to as ethics.

In addition, ethics is
a field of philosophy that deals with the question of morality. Furthermore, ethics is
made up of rules of conduct. It unquestionably establishes how a person should act in
given circumstances.

Thalidomide was licensed as a sedative in Europe in the late 1950s. The


medicine was administered to manage drowsiness and nausea during pregnancy, but it
was quickly discovered that using it during pregnancy caused serious fetal
abnormalities. Many patients were unaware that they were taking a medicine that would
result in such a tragic outcome. Due to thalidomide, around 12,000 kids were born with
serious abnormalities. Consumers are not ethically accountable, but medical
professionals and the pharmaceutical company Grünenthal are. They broke the law by
distributing a medication that had undergone minimal testing and resulted in birth
abnormalities in infants born to mothers who used it. The pharmaceutical company's
medical professionals and scientists were well aware of how insufficient their testing
was and how it could lead to dangerous side effects, and thus met the moral
responsibility criteria. There were numerous complaints about the drug's harmful
adverse effects, yet they opted to ignore them and continue to advertise it; this is a
negligent behavior.

It took the thalidomide pharmaceutical company so many years just to say "sorry"
to all the victims of deformities. To avoid the disaster, they should have acted on only
one complaint of side effects from the outset. We now have a variety of technology at
our disposal to prevent such tragedies from occurring again. There is still a connection
between breach of duty and damage, which is the basis for any negligence case. The
cautions of our study and drugs should not be ignored.

Medical ethics is a discipline that is almost as old as the profession of medicine


itself, and it is constantly evolving. Doctors and nurses have a lot of responsibilities to
their patients. Their responsibilities include both their own acts and those of their
assistants, such as nurses, medical students, and residents. Doctors and nurses are
known to have played a significant role in the Auschwitz Human Research, which
comprised inhumane experiments on concentration camp inmates in the name of
research. During the Nazi "euthanasia" programs, they were given the task of
determining who would live and who would die. The Nazi euthanasia programs were
aimed to eliminate persons who were deemed a burden to society. The nurses were
told when the doctors signed certificates designating a person to live or die, and it was
they who would administer intravenous injections, overdoses of drugs, or send them
outside on verandas in the dead of winter to die of hypothermia.
These medical professionals were given an option, yet the nurses chose to
murder their victims. How could a group of professionals entrusted with safeguarding
human health use this very societal mission as a justification for torturing and killing
people? Despite taking the Hippocratic Oath, doctors in Germany intentionally violated
the Hippocratic tenet of "do no harm." They didn't need to consider informed consent
because they were guided by utilitarian moral principles. To help people who undertake
research with human beings avoid such acts, we should emphasize the ethical
principles of autonomy (respect for the individual), nonmaleficence (do no harm), and
justice (fairness).

To summarize, ethics is unquestionably one of humanity's most crucial criteria.


Furthermore, the world would have been an evil and chaotic place without ethics and
morals. Furthermore, humanity's growth is impossible without ethics. There must be
widespread ethical consciousness among society's youth.

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