What's the difference between deontology and teleology?

Deontology


Definition:

  • (n.) The science relat/ to duty or moral obligation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An attempt is made to discuss deontological problems, related with pharmacological treatment of malignant tumors, according to the traditions of N.N.
  • (2) Methods of the verification of deontological training of students in medical institutes were specified.
  • (3) Gillon outlines the principles of the deontological, or duty-based, group of moral theories in one of a series of British Medical Journal articles on the philosophical foundations of medical ethics.
  • (4) In order to assure to patients medical data privacy, the MIM is of opinion that deontological and legal rules concerning access to identifiable medical data in automated information systems shall be the same as those that are applicable to conventional medical records.
  • (5) Gillon rejects each of these arguments, contending that avoiding deceit is a basic moral norm that can be defended from utilitarian as well as deontological points of view.
  • (6) The epidemiologist is concerned with the scientific ethic which is duty-based, related to deontology or to rule utilitarian theories of ethics.
  • (7) Deontological problems are of major importance in the adequate treatment of patients with diseases of the nervous system.
  • (8) DEONTOLOGICAL: Modern medicine is oriented toward health maintenance and promotion, thus including prevention.
  • (9) The article includes up-to-date references to the Brazilian Code of Deontology (1984) and the Code of Medical Ethics (1988), as well as to the Civil and Criminal Codes.
  • (10) The possibility of eliciting hypnoid states under the physical methods of treatment is discussed together with their therapeutic application and arising deontological problems.
  • (11) The present paper gives a deontological argument for allowing children to be subjects in certain types of research.
  • (12) In daily practice physicians are professionally obliged to interpret ethical precepts and laws in emergency situations under extreme pressure when resuscitation measures leave little or no time to consider deontological issues.
  • (13) A number of deontological problems connected with hypnosis are dealt with and the practical aspects discussed.
  • (14) The dialectic unity of inductive and deductive methods in mastering the fundamentals of deontology was stressed.
  • (15) Practically, the questions of deontology are not working out in the sphere of military medical rating (expertise).
  • (16) The ethical values of nurse-nursing task relationships slightly took up deontological position.
  • (17) Two distinct ethical positions are highlighted as being fundamental to the understanding of resource allocation in this sector -- deontological and utilitarian theories of ethics.
  • (18) Deontological aspects of occupational pathology in otorhinolaryngology are deeply involved in physician's activities, beginning with preliminary and regular medical examinations and ending with determination of the relationship between disease and occupation, development of therapeutic recommendations and subsequent rehabilitation.
  • (19) This article outlines the historical development of such committees by reviewing some celebrated cases and also categorizes the committees as ethical-praxeological, legal-scientific, or deontological-technical, according to their functions and structure.
  • (20) Other aspects are also discussed, such as: extension of the prophylactic orientation in the curative stomatological practice, and the avoidance of iatrogenic lesions and diseases, which are frequent in the stomatological practice; the ergonomic organization of the working place, and of the work methods, reduction of the risks involved in contracting or transmitting to or from the patients of various diseases, prophylaxis of occupational diseases in stomatologists, prophylaxis of aspects, attitudes or behaviour which are against etichal and deontological principles of the profession, as well as the necessity for a better preparation from the prophylactic viewpoint of stomatologists and their coworkers in view of coping with increased competence and efficiency with the increased demands of stomatological assistance of the population.

Teleology


Definition:

  • (n.) The doctrine of the final causes of things
  • (n.) the doctrine of design, which assumes that the phenomena of organic life, particularly those of evolution, are explicable only by purposive causes, and that they in no way admit of a mechanical explanation or one based entirely on biological science; the doctrine of adaptation to purpose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The presence of a preformed pool of TNF mRNA may teleologically be viewed as a mechanism to increase the rapidity of the host's response to sepsis.
  • (2) Glucose regulation thus becomes of secondary importance to the maintenance of basal insulin secretion, which is teleologically needed for the "anabolic" requirements of cell growth.
  • (3) By this he has done the step from the cyclical conception of life, essential for early humanity and childhood, towards the causal and teleological thinking of modern man.
  • (4) This may represent a teleologically appropriate response to prevent catastrophic losses of fluid that would occur, if the normally high rates of glomerular filtration continued, in the face of reduced tubular reabsorptive capacity.
  • (5) The teleological significance of the neutral cotransport of two Cl- with one Na+ and one K+ is that it enables transporting epithelia like the rectal gland, cornea, salivary gland, and thick ascending limb of Henle's loop to double the efficiency of their Na-K-ATPase pump.
  • (6) The objectives of this study were to determine 1) the relative degrees to which students' notions of physiological functions are teleologic or mechanistic in nature, 2) whether these notions differ between students in elementary and advanced-level physiology courses, and 3) whether the degree of teleologic vs. mechanistic thinking can be modified by direct discussion of this topic.
  • (7) The present result extends the variational, teleological formulations found a decade ago by the author to the more-than-two species case.
  • (8) Teleologically then, it makes sense that in oncogenesis this growth regulating network is utilized by the production of proteins which mimic growth factors, the activated form of their receptors or, the messengers themselves.
  • (9) While hairy cells have the capacity for immunoglobulin production, we were unable to demonstrate a teleological link between these cells and the renal lesion.
  • (10) Since this reaction of the organism can barely be influenced and it appears to be teleologically purposeful, many authors have repeatedly attempted to achieve a utilization of nutrients as high and economic as possible using an infusion regimen adapted to these conditions.
  • (11) Many of these patterns, which are at least partly inherited, can be understood teleologically on the basis of preservation of the internal environmental and natural selection in evolution.
  • (12) These "teleological" aspects represent the foundation of the phisiopathology of adaptation in advanced age and the key for a correct interpretation of it and therefore for a correct preventive and curative program.
  • (13) To a certain extent, these changes are teleologically beneficial, as they are able to partially protect the failing heart from potentially toxic adrenergic stimuli.
  • (14) The author reviews the conceptual, diagnostic, and teleological dimensions of this addition to diagnostic nomenclature.
  • (15) A questionnaire that determined whether students thought about body functions in a teleologic (why) or mechanistic (how) manner was administered to the following categories of students: 1) a class of high school biology students, 2) classes of students taking elementary college-level physiology courses, and 3) college students in advanced physiology courses.
  • (16) On teleological grounds alone, it would appear that ocular versions and rotations take place, in many cases, along geodesics of least energy and that paths of higher energy are only taken for reasons of binocular near vision.
  • (17) The teleological significance of these two pathways remains to be established, particularly since mitochondria are capable of transporting CoA from the cytosol.
  • (18) This is an attempt to find a teleological rationale for the involution of the thymus with aging.
  • (19) With this posture, and with the general obstruction of constructive dialogue between evolution and the physical sciences it fosters, come the perennial accusations that Darwinism deals in adaptational teleology but not mechanisms.
  • (20) Teleologically, however, the role of the HLA system may be viewed as vital for survival of the species and the individual by providing the host with a recognition system of and defenses against viruses, microorganisms, parasites, plant antigens, neoplastic cells, and others.