Medical ethics
Four principles plus attention to scope
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23370299 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Raanan Gillon (0000-0002-1237-4937, Imperial College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 309 |
| Issue | 6948 |
| Pages | 184 |
| Publication date | 1994-07-16 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | BMJ (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1447 • E-ISSN: 0267-0623 |
| Publisher | BMJ (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1136/bmj.309.6948.184 |
| PMID | 8044100 |
| OpenAlex | W2120229733 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 84 |
| References cited | 1 |
The "four principles plus scope" approach provides a simple, accessible, and culturally neutral approach to thinking about ethical issues in health care. The approach, developed in the United States, is based on four common, basic prima facie moral commitments--respect for autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice--plus concern for their scope of application. It offers a common, basic moral analytical framework and a common, basic moral language. Although they do not provide ordered rules, these principles can help doctors and other health care workers to make decisions when reflecting on moral issues that arise at work.
Autonomy · Beneficence · Defeasible estate · Economic Justice · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Health care · Medical ethics · Political science · Prima facie · Scope (computer science) · Sociology · Work (physics) · Computer Science · Engineering · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues · Patient Dignity and Privacy · Philosophy · Psychology
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| Highly cited | No |