Ethics, applied ethics and medical ethics.

We worked about the different branches of ethics and about a case of dilemma in House episode.
The mein branches of ethics are meta-ethics, normative ethics, applied ethics, moral psychology and descriptive ethics.

Applied ethics is the philosophical examination, from a moral standpoint, of particular inssues in private and public life that are matters of moral judgament. Some branch of applied ethics are decision ethics, profesional ethics, clinical ethics, businnes ethics, organizational ethics and social ethics.
Medical ethics is a system of moral principes that apply values and judgaments to the practice of medicine. Six values that commonly apply to medical ethics discussions are: Autnomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice, dignity and truthfulness and honesty.

In the House episode there is a conflict between House and Master about if they should say the consequences that could have the illness of a patient. Master doesn't want to lie because she thinks that patiens should know the dangers of their illness.

I think that depents of the situation not say the true or lie can be equal or different. For example, if you see a crime and you don't say it is iqual to lie but if someone gives you a present that you don't like and you don't say it, it isn't lie because you don't want to do bad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_ethics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_ethics