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- Autonomy. Autonomy itself is essentially the right to self-governance. According to this principle we ought to have the freedom to live our lives in accordance with what we deem in our best interests in line with our desires, beliefs and preferences.
- Non-maleficence. This is the principle of doing no harm to patients. Beauchamp and Childress state: “the principle of non- maleficence obligates us to refrain from causing harm to others.”
- Beneficence. Beneficence, or doing good, not only “requires that we treat persons autonomously and refrain from harming them, but also that we contribute to their welfare.”
- Justice: In the case of healthcare we consider distributive justice which is defined as the “fair, equitable, and appropriate distribution of benefits and norms.”
There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun farness, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
Jun 4, 2020 · Fairness to the patient assumes a role of primary importance when there are conflicts of interests. A flagrant example of violation of this principle would be when a particular option of treatment is chosen over others, or an expensive drug is chosen over an equally effective but less expensive one because it benefits the physician, financially ...
- Basil Varkey
- 10.1159/000509119
- 2020
- Med Princ Pract. 2021 Feb; 30(1): 17-28.
As a hybrid of general medical practitioner and philosopher/medical ethicist, and as a firm defender of the Beauchamp and Childress four principles approach to medical ethics, 3 I chose to try to raise the ethical profile of justice and fairness within medical ethics.
- Raanan Gillon
- 2020
Justice is a broad principle that in medical ethics is usually taken to express fairness in the distribution of resources. Application of the general principles to the individual patient's circumstances constitutes the process of specification.
- Richard Hain
- 2020
1. farness - the property of being remote. farawayness, remoteness. distance - the property created by the space between two objects or points. far cry - distance estimated in terms of the audibility of a cry; "it's a far cry from here".
noun. fair· ness ˈfer-nəs. Synonyms of fairness. : the quality or state of being fair. especially : fair or impartial treatment : lack of favoritism toward one side or another. This is the real Ponzi scheme that does injury to the American promise of fairness … Jesse Jackson.
