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In this paper, I provide a brief sketch of the purposes that medical ethics serves and what makes for good medical ethics. Medical ethics can guide clinical practice and biomedical research, contribute to the education of clinicians, advance thinking in the field, and direct healthcare policy.
- Rosamond Rhodes
- 2015
Jun 4, 2020 · Abstract. 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.
May 7, 2024 · Healthcare professionals and others engaged in the healthcare industry must prioritize ethical principles. Medical ethics undergoes intertwined developments with other ethical fields, experiencing relatively rapid changes, often occurring within a single lifetime.
- Michael Young, Angela Wagner
- 2024/05/07
Aug 12, 2022 · This is the overarching ethical guidance for doctors in the UK, outlining core ethical values and attributes. It is split into four domains: 1) Knowledge, skills, and behaviours. 2) Safety and quality. 3) Communication, partnership, and teamwork. 4) Maintain trust.
- BMJ Careers
- On The Desirability of Rule-Based Ethics
- On The Possibility of Rule-Based Ethics
- On The Effectiveness of Rule-Based Ethics
- On The Consistency of Rule-Based Ethics
- Beyond Ruled-Based Ethics
As Haggerty argues, the purpose of ethics boards—to formally manage the risks of conducting scientific inquiry—has given way to institutions that hamper critical research, encourage unethical behaviour, and homogenize and narrow our vision (, p. 412). Like any other bureaucratic organization, ethics boards have expanded in scope and size , with the...
Even if a completely rule-based ethical approach to human subjects research is desirable, it is likely impossible, a point which the authors of the Belmont report recognized . It is doubtful that all the rules an individual researcher must follow in the field can be determined a priori. This becomes even more difficult in contexts that the research...
What is clear from both vignettes is that, as a researcher, it is possible to increase the probability of harm because one follows the rules explicitly. Thus, in the aforementioned situations and many others, it may be that the best thing a researcher can do to minimize risk to research participants is to disobeythe ethics board’s rules. Indeed, on...
One possibility here is to codify and arrange the priorities of different spheres of value in relation to one another—to say, for instance, that physical harm > psychological harm > social harm > economic harm—and then provide consistent ways of measuring and assessing these things. This is of course, ridiculous. How many potential concussions in a...
I argue above that a completely rule-based approach to ethics in human subjects research is not desirable, possible, or effective, and that any application of it is necessarily subjective and potentially inconsistent. However, the above discussion has also served as a reminder that underlying the rule-based approach of REBs is a set of particular v...
- Mark Daku
- mark.daku@tcu.edu
- 2018
Jul 16, 1994 · Moreover, these four principles, plus attention to their scope of application, encompass most of the moral issues that arise in health care. The four prima facie principles are respect for autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice.
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Dec 20, 2023 · Because addressing issues in medical ethics often requires multidisciplinary expertise — in philosophy, biomedical research, clinical practice, law, policy, and communication, among other fields...
