Principle-Based Ethics
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Monday, November 23, 2009

From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration.

29 Nov 2009 The withdrawal, withholding, or implementation of life-sustaining treatments such as artificial nutrition and hydration challenge nurses on a daily basis. To meet these challenges, nurses need the composite skills of moral and ethical discernment, ... Read more...

Restarting the clock...again: ethical considerations in retransplantation.

30 Aug 2009 Cardiac and pulmonary transplantation has revolutionized end-stage heart and lung therapy. With the advent of cyclosporine and other immunosuppressive therapies, many patients lead productive lives. Unfortunately, other patients who have undergone ... Read more...

Autonomy, beneficence, and gezelligheid: lessons in moral theory from the Dutch.

30 Aug 2009 American bioethicists lack the theoretical resources to work in cross-cultural settings. All we have are two approaches to ethics--principles vs. narratives--that are mostly at odds, and neither of which is up to the job. If moral principles are too ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Principle-Based Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration. 29 Nov 2009
• Evolving from reductionism to holism: is there a future for systems medicine? 31 Aug 2009
• Restarting the clock...again: ethical considerations in retransplantation. 30 Aug 2009
• Autonomy, beneficence, and gezelligheid: lessons in moral theory from the Dutch. 30 Aug 2009
• Ethical analysis of non-medical fetal ultrasound. 30 Aug 2009
• Ethical problems observed by student nurses. 30 Aug 2009
• Assisted suicide: increased support for a change in the law. 30 Jul 2009
• American Dietetic Association/Commission on Dietetic Registration code of ethics for the profession of dietetics and process for consideration of ethics issues. 30 Jul 2009
• Ethical reasoning in baccalaureate nursing students. 29 Jun 2009
• Nursing and euthanasia: a review of argument-based ethics literature. 29 Jun 2009
• Incorporating patients' spirituality into care using Gadow's ethical framework. 29 Jun 2009
• [Definition and concepts related to touch in care] 29 Jun 2009
• Smoking inside vehicles should be banned globally. 12 May 2009
• Appropriate methodologies for empirical bioethics: it's all relative. 29 Apr 2009
• How experience confronts ethics. 29 Apr 2009
• Two concepts of empirical ethics. 29 Apr 2009
• Empirical ethics and its alleged meta-ethical fallacies. 29 Apr 2009
• Empirical ethics: who is the Don Quixote? 29 Apr 2009
• What principlism misses. 30 Mar 2009
• The ethics of conducting research with mental health service users. 27 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Principle-Based Ethics'

Definition: An approach to ethics that focuses on theories of the importance of general principles such as respect for autonomy, beneficence/nonmaleficence, and justice.

Descriptor UI: D028662

Alternative terms: Principle-Based Ethics; Ethic, Principle-Based; Ethics, Principle-Based; Principle Based Ethics; Principle-Based Ethic; Principlism;

Related Mesh Headings: Ethical Theory;

Allowable Qualifiers: history;

Tree Number: K01.316.756; K01.752.256.830;

History Note: 2002; use ETHICS 1999-2001