Principlism
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Principlism is system of ethics applied to decision making in the medical and health care fields. It is based on a core set of basic principles that are intended to be secular and similarly independent of cultural beliefs. Their most modern form derived from the work of Beauchamp and Childress in their book Principles of Biomedical Ethics. The four principles described therein are;
- Autonomy
- Non-maleficence
- Beneficence
- Justice
These guiding principles are not orthogonal and so in certain circumstances conflicts can arise between them.
[edit] Bibliography
- Beauchamp, TL (2001). Principles of Biomedical Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 454. ISBN 0-19-514332-9.