The four principles: Can they be measured and do they predict ethical decision making? [PDF]
Background The four principles of Beauchamp and Childress - autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence and justice - have been extremely influential in the field of medical ethics, and are fundamental for understanding the current approach to ethical ...
Page Katie
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Counselling for COVID-19 vaccine is necessary: Balancing the autonomy, beneficence and non-maleficence in the context of accelerating vaccine development. [PDF]
Law LS, Lo EA.
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The principles of law play a crucial role in shaping the legal system of a society and ensuring the rights and freedoms of its citizens. This article explores the importance of general principles of law in establishing the rule of law and guaranteeing ...
Parvina Fazail Ismayilova
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Human embryonic moral status in the embryo debate in the Indian religious school of thoughts is a challenging issue. The paper tries to figure out whether ontological status implies moral status of embryo.
Piyali Mitra
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Conforming to partnership values: a qualitative case study of public–private mix for TB control in Ghana [PDF]
Background: Public–private mix (PPM) can supplement public sector initiatives, including public health. As National Tuberculosis Control Programmes around the world embrace PPM, conforming to the four key principles of partnership values of beneficence ...
Joshua Amo-Adjei
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Ethical values supporting the disclosure of incidental and secondary findings in clinical genomic testing : a qualitative study [PDF]
Background: Incidental findings (IFs) and secondary findings (SFs), being results that are unrelated to the diagnostic question, are the subject of an important debate in the practice of clinical genomic medicine. Arguments for reporting these results or
De Baere, Elfride +4 more
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Beneficence and non-maleficence: collaborative practice and harm mitigation
This article is the third in a series of three, discussing and applying four ethical principles as identified by Beauchamp and Childress (2019) . This final article examines the two interrelated principles of beneficence and non-maleficence. First, we will present definitions identifying the differences between the two. Then we will identify relevant
Bifarin, O, Stonehouse, D
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Exercise prescription and the doctor’s duty of non-maleficence [PDF]
An abundance of data unequivocally demonstrates that exercise can be an effective tool in the fight against obesity and its associated comorbidities.1 Indeed, physical activity can be more effective than widely used pharmaceutical interventions. While metformin reduces the incidence of diabetes by 31% (as compared with a placebo) in both men and women ...
Pugh, Jonathan D +2 more
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Empowerment or Engagement? Digital Health Technologies for Mental Healthcare [PDF]
We argue that while digital health technologies (e.g. artificial intelligence, smartphones, and virtual reality) present significant opportunities for improving the delivery of healthcare, key concepts that are used to evaluate and understand their ...
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Ethical dimensions of paediatric nursing: A rapid evidence assessment [PDF]
© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Background: Paediatric nurses often face complex situations requiring decisions that sometimes clash with their own values and beliefs, or with the needs of the children they care for and their families.
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