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Bioethics is a field within applied ethics that focuses on ethical issues that relate to biology and biological systems. Bioethics generally includes medical ethics, animal ethics and environmental ethics and how these overlap.
Jun 4, 2020 · An overview of ethics and clinical ethics is presented in this review. The 4 main ethical principles, that is beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice, are defined and explained. Informed consent, truth-telling, and confidentiality spring from the principle of autonomy, and each of them is discussed.
- Basil Varkey
- 10.1159/000509119
- 2020
- Med Princ Pract. 2021 Feb; 30(1): 17-28.
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- A Brief History of Health Care Ethics
- Methods of Moral Decision-Making
- Ethical Principles
- Ethical Issues
- Conclusion
- References and Further Reading
While the term “medical care” designates the intention to identify and to understand disease states in order to be able to diagnose and treat patients who might suffer from them, the term “health care” has a broader application to include not only what is entailed by medical care but also considerations that, while not medical, nevertheless exercis...
Methods of moral decision-making are concerned, in a variety of ways, not only with moral decision-making but also with the people who make such decisions. Some such methods focus on the actions that result from the choices that are made in moral decision-making situations in order to determine which of such actions are right, or morally correct, a...
In addition to the application of a variety of methods of moral decision-making to the practice of health care, ethical principles are also so applicable, but not procedurally in the same way as in the method of moral decision-making identified above as principlism. As concerning normative ethical theories, in particular, regardless of the particul...
The practice of every profession reveals ethical issues that are endemic to the professional field in question. The practice of health care is no different. What follows is a look at some of the most pervasive ethical issues that are encountered in the practice of health care.
Health care ethics is a multi-faceted and fundamentally important issue for the citizens of any society because the provision of health care is essential to the well-being of each person, and the ways in which people are treated, concerning their health care, bears importantly on their health status. The many moral issues that arise out of the prov...
Anderson, E. S. (1990) “Is Women’s Labor a Commodity,” in Philosophy and Public Affairs, 19: Winter, pp. 71-92.Aristotle (1985) Nicomachean Ethics, trans. by Terence Irwin, Hackett Publishing Co.Beauchamp, T. L. and Childress, J. F. (2009) Principles of Biomedical Ethics, 6thed., New York: Oxford University Press.Beauchamp, T. L., Walters, L., Kahn, J. P., and Mastroianni, A. C. (2014) Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, 8thed., Boston: Cengage.Oct 22, 2018 · This article discusses the deontologic and utilitarian aspects of EBM and assesses EBM according to 4 bioethical principles: Respect for autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice. Strong ethical arguments support EBM as the best approach to patient care.
- Erin G Stone
- 2018
Bioethics is the interdisciplinary study of ethical issues arising in the life sciences, health care, and health and science policy. Clinical ethics can help to identify, understand and resolve ethical issues that arise in patient care by helping to clarify why certain actions are right or wrong.
Jul 20, 2017 · The ethics of care, or care ethics, developed in the field of bioethics, primarily in response to the lack of context and the rationalist approach of principlism. Care ethics takes an approach which consciously distances itself from principlism and the idea that ethical problems can be solved by means of abstract principles and instead develops ...
About. What Is Bioethics? As a world leader in bioethics, the Berman Institute of Bioethics is dedicated to achieving more ethical practices and policies relevant to human health and well-being. What is bioethics? It’s complicated. Not even all bioethicists agree on its definition.
